Notes about the character of Tristan:
Tristan (TREES-tahn), the courtly son of Rivalin and Blanchefleur. Orphaned at birth, he is raised by Rual the Faithful until he joins King Mark’s court after his escape from Norwegian kidnappers. He serves his lord well by killing Duke Morolt and winning the hand of Isolde the Fair for Mark. Tristan and Isolde drink a love potion by accident and fall helplessly in love. The two lovers deceive Mark until Tristan is forced to run away. Later, he marries Isolde of the White Hands, but it is a marriage in name only, because he is still deeply in love with Isolde the Fair.
Notes about the character of Isolde:
Known as Isolde the Fair, she is the heroine in the Tristan legend. Isolde was the daughter of King Gorman of Ireland and the Elder Isolde, sister of Morholt (Marhaus). Isolde knows how to brew potions and whip up remedies from all sorts of poisons , she learnt this skill from her mother, who actually prepared the love potion. Isolde's loyal companion and maidservant (or lady-in-waiting) was named Brangwain. It was Brangwain who was responsible to carry the love potion made by the queen of Ireland to help her daughter fall in love with King Mark of Cornwall, who was older than Isolde, after the wedding. Brangwain has a main role in the whole story, since she falls ill during the journey back to Cornwall. While she is asleep Tristan and Isolde drink the love potion thinking it’s water and fall deeply in love. This will change their faith and will lead them to death.
Physical description
Isolde is a beautiful and charming woman with long fair hair, pale skin and rose cheeks.
Psychological description
The bottled-up fury, the sour regret, the quick intelligence running to irony. Proved to be an eager and gifted pupil, playing the harp exquisitely, Isolde the fair is regal, she is passionate, she is generous but she is also filled with fury at her situation at the beginning, ready to kill Tristan because he caused the death of her uncle Morholt, and at the same time, filled with warmth and love in the second part of the story, when she is helplessly in love with Tristan.
Origins
She is the daughter of the king and queen of Ireland
Cultural Background
She was educated by her mother from whom she also learnt how to make potions and remedies with herbs
Role
She is one of the main characters
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