![]() ![]() Ditmas in her study of the topography of the Tristan legend, suggests that this may have been the site of the hermit Ogrin’s chapel, where the lovers, having escaped from King Mark, found temporary refuge. A contemporary theory, first advanced by E. One of the most spectacular is Roche Rock, a massive outcrop of granite, rising from a landscape ruined by clay mining, on which is perched the remains of a fifteenth-century chapel. ![]() ![]() In the end, Tristan met his death and Iseult, unable to live without him, followed soon after.Ī dangerous winding way over broken rocks leads up to the remains of the tiny chapel.Ī number of sites in and around Cornwall and the far north commemorate this tragic tale. Thereafter, their lives were lived in a series of furtive trysts, while they both sought to escape the traps laid for them by the suspicious Mark. Tristan was King Mark’s nephew who, having been sent to fetch his uncle’s bride-to-be from Ireland, accidentally shared a love potion with her so that the two fell hopelessly in love. ![]() The story of the doomed love of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most famous and much loved subjects of the medieval romancers who created the vast epics of Arthurian literature. ![]()
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