Infinint Love
Love has been present throughout the history of mankind. It’s not a surprise that it has been the topic of countless poems, novels, lyrics, and many other forms of writing. The “original” love story is Tristan and Iseult. Tristan and Iseult are second only to Lancelot and Guinevere as the great lovers of the Arthurian legends. The story of their tragic love has been the subject of numerous medieval and modern retellings. The medieval versions of the story are sometimes divided into two branches, called the courtly and the common versions. The former is represented by the Tristan of the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas, which was written in the latter part of the twelfth century. His version in turn influenced Gottfried von Strassburg, whose Tristan, written in the first decade of the thirteenth century, is one of the great romances of the Middle Ages, and the Old Norse Tristrams saga (1226). This story is a mirror image of value of “courtly love” during the Middle Ages. The story of Tristan and Isuelt relates the culture in which it was written i
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Approximate Word count = 718
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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