SOURCE: “The Tryst beneath the Tree: An Episode in the Tristan Legend,” in Romance Philology, Vol. 9, No. 3, February, 1956, pp. 269-84.
In the following essay, Newstead traces the literary history of the “tryst episode” of the Tristan legend, finding that it originated in three Celtic stories before it developed in various forms in Welsh, Breton, and French tales.
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