However, they are now deeply in love and cannot stay away from each other for long. She and Tristan agree to keep their distance from each other to preserve both their reputations at court. Iseult marries King Mark shortly after returning to Cornwall. The two cement their love for each other before completing the journey to Cornwall. Tristan admits that he has feelings for Iseult as well. She is angry that she now has to marry King Mark instead. Iseult tells Tristan that she is angry about the arrangement since she did not kill Tristan while he was wounded, in part, because she wanted to marry him. On the way back to Cornwall, Tristan and Iseult are forced ashore and stranded on a deserted beach for several days. However, he says that she will marry King Mark instead to fulfill Tristan’s quest. After competing in a tournament to further prove his worth to the Irish king, Tristan is allowed to marry Iseult.
Iseult briefly considers killing Tristan because he killed Morholt, but decides not to because he also slew the dragon. Tristan kills the dragon and Iseult once more heals his wounds. He learns that a dragon is terrorizing the land there, and the King has promised to wed his daughter to whoever can slay it. Tristan travels across the British Isles before ending up in Ireland again. The king sends him on a quest to find a suitable princess.
After his return, King Mark asks Tristan to help him find someone he can marry.
When he is well again, he returns to Cornwall to much celebration. Tristan is aware of Iseult watching over him but is too feverish to actually meet her. His boat comes ashore in Ireland, where he is found by Princess Iseult, a beautiful young woman who restores Tristan to health with her skills as a healer. Wasting away from his wound, Tristan requests he be put adrift in a small boat so he can die on the open water. However, a minor wound that Tristan received in his battle with Morholt quickly becomes life-threatening as Morholt carried a poisoned blade. He reveals his identity to King Mark, who promotes him to captain of the guards. Tristan goes to war with Mark’s troops and singlehandedly defeats the Irish champion Morholt. Impressed by Tristan’s skill, King Mark employs him as a soldier. When he arrives in Cornwall, Tristan goes to his uncle’s castle at Tintagel, forbidding his companions from telling anyone who they really are and where they are from. Tristan leaves Lothian with Gorvenal and some of his other companions. When Tristan expresses a desire to see his mother’s homeland of Cornwall, his father the king agrees to give him a ship so he can travel there. By the time he is a teenager, Tristan is an accomplished and handsome prince. Tristan is brought up by Gorvenal, a courtier who teaches him to hunt, fight, ride horses, and play the harp. His mother, the princess of Cornwall, dies giving birth to him, and his father, King Rivalin of Lothian, is unable to raise his son due to his grief. The story begins with the birth of Tristan. Sutcliff was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Anderson Medal in 1974. Tristan and Iseult received the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award in 1972 and was a runner up for the Carnegie Medal. Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s novel, Tristan and Iseult (1971), retells the story of the twelfth-century romance in a manner suitable for young readers.
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