Tristan Iseult

myth:tristan_iseult

Tristan and Iseult drink by mistake the love-potion brewed for her marriage to his own king, and are bound in a love they can neither escape nor rightfully have. The great doomed adultery of the Middle Ages — behind Lancelot and Guinevere, and behind Wagner's Tristan — love as a fate stronger than honour or law. — medieval romance