SOURCE: “Tristan,” in The Evolution of Arthurian Romance From the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300, Vol. I. Reprint. Peter Smith, 1958, pp. 152-91.
In the following essay, Bruce maintains that most modern critics agree that a “single primitive Tristan romance” is the source of all extant versions. Bruce then surveys those versions, and discusses the plot of the Tristan legend and its similarity to the Irish Diarmaid and Grainne legend.
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