SOURCE: Vinaver, Eugène. Foreword to The Romance of Tristan and Isolt, translated by Norman B. Spector, pp. xi-xviii. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1973.
In the following introduction to Spector's translation of the later prose Tristan and Isolt, Vinaver briefly touches on the origin and central themes of the legend, as well on differences from Béroul's version.
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