Eilhart von Oberge introduced the Tristan legend to the German cultural area with his Tristrant, a poem of more than ninety-five hundred verses. It is the oldest complete Tristan romance that is extant. Although Eilhart does not preserve every known Tristan episode - omitting, for example, the Gilan adventure and the equivocal oath of Isalde - he sets out to relate the full biography of the eponymous hero from birth to burial. The romance concludes with a dual miracle: King Mark, the wronged husband, forgives Tristrant and Isalde for their adulterous love; and the rosebush and grapevine over the single grave of the star-crossed lovers grow so tightly together that they are inextricably intertwined. Based on a certain buch (book), a French source that has not been preserved, Tristrant derives from the same narrative tradition as the Tristran of Béroul (circa 1190). Both offer the version of...