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| | Legends - King Arthur - Tristan and Iseult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | The story of how Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and Iseult, the King's Irish bride, unknowingly drink of a love potion and are thereby doomed has remained fixed in its essentials since the earliest tales, but the motivations and characterizations of the various actors are malleable. |
 | | It is commonly believed that shadowy historical figures lie behind the Tristan story: "Drustanus son of Cunomorus," recorded on the famous "Tristan Stone," a grave-marker inscribed in sixth-century Latin found near Fowey in Cornwall, and a King "Marcus" also called "Cunomorus," recorded in a ninth-century Life of the Breton saint Paul Aurelian. |
 | | Mark King of Cornwall, also at the Camelot Project, summarizes the historical sources. |
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