SOURCE: “The Love Potion in the Primitive Tristan Romance,” in Medieval Studies in the Memory of Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis. Reprint. Slatkine Reprints, 1974, pp. 75-86.
In the following essay, Vinaver reviews the critical debate surrounding the nature of the origin of the extant versions of the Tristan legend. He also examines the treatment of the love potion motif found in the various versions of the legend.
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