SOURCE: “Tristan in the North,” in Angevin Britain and Scandinavia. Reprint. Kraus Reprint Co., 1975, pp. 169-98.

In the following essay, Leach examines the characteristics of the Scandinavian version of the Tristan legend, which was derived from Thomas's Anglo-Norman version of the late twelfth century.

Deim var ekki skapað Nema að skilja. 

Tristrams Kvœði

In the north-west part of Iceland there is a fjord which until modern times bore the name of Trostansfjord. It lies in a district where many names of Celtic origin have survived since the time when they were first bestowed in the ninth century by Celto-Scandinavian colonists from Ireland and the islands north and west of the Scottish coast. Now in the lists of the Pictish kings of the sixth to the eighth century the name Drostan appears frequently. It is, therefore, by no means unlikely that the name of an heroic Drostan was...