Tristan als Mönch (<1250)
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Matière de Bretagne
Tristan als Mönch (<1250)
Bushey, B.C.(ed.): Tristan als Mönch. Untersuchungen und kritische Edition. (=GAG 119) Göppingen 1974.
TrMo-1:
King Arthur of Britain has a remarkably beautiful wife who loved an excellent knight in the king’s service who is still remembered. The queen is longing for her lover and wants him to come to court. So she tells the king that she will have a feast at Pentecost. Messengers are sent to invite guests. Every knight has to bring his lady with him.
Motif References:
T 31.1 Lovers’ meeting: Hero in service of lady’s father
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady
T 481 Adultery
F 575.1 Remarkably beautiful woman
P 634 Feasts
TrMo-57:
Tristan gets the news of the feast. He is grieved by the fact that he cannot attend the feast with his true beloved, the Fair Isolde, nor with his wife, Isolde with the white hands. So he asks Kornewal for advice and they discuss the matter. For Tristan’s sake the queen Ysot betrayed the king and the malicious duke. Finally Tristan decides to attend the feast and takes his wife and fifty knights and ladies with him. His wife is Isolde’s namesake. She has very precious clothes. They have fifty black horses which are very beautiful.
Motif References:
T 92 Rivals in love
F 821 Extraordinary dress (clothes, robe, etc.)
TrMo-353:
Tristan once has got his horse from a queen as a love token: It has one green and one white foot, and it has a red ear. Those are symbolic colors: Red stands for love’s sorrow, green for constantly renewed love and sorrow, white for faithfulness. The saddle is very precious (ivory, crystal enclosing life-like birds), the beautiful bridle is decorated with images of animals, the stirrups are two golden dragons. On the horse’s forehead there is an incandescent jewel. If one takes the bridle there is the song of a blackbird to be heard. Tristan and his retinue leave for Karidol. They are accompanied by musicians, women are beating the drums.
Motif References:
T 59 (Bm) Love tokens
Z 141 Symbolic color: red
Z 142 Symbolic color: white
Z 145 Symbolic color: green.
Z 201.1 (Bm) Hero’s famous horse
B 731.0.1 Animals of strange and varied coloring
F 868 Extraordinary saddle
D 1615 Magic singing object.
D 1645.1 Incandescent jewel
TrMo-595:
They are welcomed at Arthur’s court. Tristan and his wife as well as Keydin sit at the sides of Arthur at the Round Table. There are all sorts of entertainments at the feast. At night Tristan dreams that he meets Isolde at Tintajoele but she refuses to greet him and accuses him of loving his wife more than her. As he wakes he starts lamenting. Taking his dream for real he decides to leave with Kurnewale.
Motif References:
T 75 Man scorned by his beloved
Z 201.9.1 (Bm) Hero’s famous possessions - Arthur’s Round Table
TrMo-756:
In the forest they find a dead knight. Tristan starts lamenting, he cries and beats self. Kornewale wants to stop him by saying this is female behavior and asks him for the true reason of his grief: Otherwise he will no more be his servant. He summons him for the sake of his love and thus forces Tristan to tell the truth. Tristan makes Kurnewale give a blind promise to do whatever Tristan asks.
Motif References:
T 59 (Bm) Love tokens
M 100 Vows and oaths
F 1041.21.6 Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief
TrMo-912:
Tristan wants to test Isolde’s love by shamming death: He makes the dead man’s face unrecognizable, his clothes look like Tristan’s. Then he tells Kurnewale to take the corpse to a nearby monastery and to spread news of Tristan’s death. The corpse should be buried at the castle of his nephew. Tristan goes to the monastery as well and begs the abbot for mercy for the killing of Tristan. He wants to become a monk, asks for a monk’s habit and cuts his hair. In the meantime Kurnewale spreads the news of Tristan’s death. The monks take care of the body and Kurnewale returns to court.
Motif References:
H 466 Feigned death to test wife’s faithfulness
H 1556.1 Test of fidelity by feigning death
K 1826.1 Disguise as monk
TrMo-1018:
It is a custom of Arthur to wait under a lime tree for his knights returning from their quests and to hear their adventures. All but Tristan have returned already. Kurnewale brings the news of Tristan’s death. Isolde with the white hands nearly dies from grief, the knights and ladies cry. The court sets out for the monastery to look at the corpse. Arthur laments at the bier. The queen says he was the only man who knew true love. Isolde with the white hands swoons and falls down from her horse. She changes color and is unable to speak. Her brother Kaedin promises to leave chivalry.
Motif References:
T 211.9 Excessive grief at husband’s or wife’s death
F 1041.21.7 Swooning from grief
H 1221 Quest for adventure
TrMo-1324:
Isolde is weeping bloody tears out of grief, she is in despair because having no sword she cannot even commit suicide. So she declares that she will retire from the world in a hermitage. Arthur will have taken Tristan’s body across the sea. All but Isolde who is too weak to continue the journey accompany the dead. They come to Tintajoel where there is great grief about Tristan’s death. Kurnewale holds king Marke responsible for Tristan’s death. He reminds of Tristan’s many services to Marke and especially his exploit against Morolt. He was his matchmaker and Marke should have married Tristan to Isolde and let him have his kingdom. Tristan’s and Isolde’s innocence had well been proved by the sword of chastity between them and by Isolde’s test of the hot iron.
Motif References:
T 51 Wooing by emissary
T 351 Sword of chastity
H 412.4.1 Chastity ordeal: holding hot iron
F 1041.21.1.1 Tears of blood from excessive grief
H 1561.2.1 Holmgang: single combat on an island.
TrMo-1682:
The king helps to carry the bier. One of the chaplains is Tristan in disguise. He is amused. Marke is angry about Isolde’s reaction to the news of Tristan’s death: She refuses to lament, saying Tristan had meant great sorrow to her. The king forces her to lament for his sake. But although she does not show much grief she feels deep sorrow in her heart.
Motif References:
K 1534.1 Queen deceives king by telling him her lover is her enemy.
K 1826.1 Disguise as monk
TrMo-1836:
The steward Tinas and everybody at the court is lamenting, they beat self and tear their hair from grief. Isolde looks at the corpse to see if there might be some help because she knows about medicine. She kisses the corpse and Tristan becomes jealous. She remembers Tristan’s exploits, how he obtained her in Ireland by the dragon fight and how he then rescued her from the treacherous steward who pretended to have slain the dragon. She wants to die with him. If a woman could do so she would take revenge for his death. At night Tristan is praying in church and longs for Isolde. Kurnewale wants to tell her the truth, and prove it by the ring she once sent to Tristan by Diamise and by a sealed letter. At the news of Tristan’s disguise as a monk (brother Wit) Isolde changes color. Kurnewale takes her to the love tryst.
Motif References:
B 11.11 Fight with dragon
T 35 Lovers’ rendezvous
T 51 Wooing by emissary
H 82 Identifying tokens sent with messenger
T 211.9 Excessive grief at husband’s or wife’s death
F 1041.21.6 Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief
K 1826.1 Disguise as monk
K 1831.0.1 Disguise by changing name
K 1932 Impostors claim reward (prize) earned by hero
K 2242 Treacherous steward
TrMo-2455:
Brangäne who would have helped Tristan has already died. Kurnewale gives Tristan his clothes and he goes to meet Isolde. She feigns illness at Tristan’s bier and sends for a doctor, brother Wit. Tristan/Wit treats her with an ointment and they are left alone with Diamire.
Motif References:
K 1514.11 Illness feigned to call physician paramour
K 1826.1 Disguise as monk
K 1831.0.1 Disguise by changing name
TrMo-2615:
The dead now shall be buried and there is great grief. Marke looks after Isolde and asks Wit/Tristan to stay with her. Ysengrin in a similar way trusted his wife Hersant to Reinhart. Finally Tristan asks to leave to return to his monastery. Marke should give his reward to the monastery and Tristan returns to Parmenie.
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