Tristan and IseultLong before the time of chivalrous knights, fair ladies, and turreted castles, Tristan defeats Ireland's champion warrior and gains the friendship of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who entrusts him with a very special mission: to sail the seas in search of a queen. Book jacket. |
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... headland , with many long thatched halls and byres and barns huddled among sheltered orchards on the landward side of it , all hazed over with the smoke of evening cooking fires ; and beyond it only the empty shining of the sea , with ...
... headland , with many long thatched halls and byres and barns huddled among sheltered orchards on the landward side of it , all hazed over with the smoke of evening cooking fires ; and beyond it only the empty shining of the sea , with ...
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... headland into the open sea . Soon Tristan was out of sight of land , alone with the waves and the sky . By day the seabirds swept between him and the sun , and at night the stars wheeled over his head ; and he never knew how often the ...
... headland into the open sea . Soon Tristan was out of sight of land , alone with the waves and the sky . By day the seabirds swept between him and the sun , and at night the stars wheeled over his head ; and he never knew how often the ...
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... headland ; but out beyond , the seas ran swift and grey , and flecked with the white crests that men say are the manes of Manan- nan the Sea God's horses . And Tristan said to the Shipmaster , " We must wait another day for the seas to ...
... headland ; but out beyond , the seas ran swift and grey , and flecked with the white crests that men say are the manes of Manan- nan the Sea God's horses . And Tristan said to the Shipmaster , " We must wait another day for the seas to ...
Contents
Tristan Comes to Cornwall | 1 |
The Morholt | 9 |
The Voyage of Healing | 18 |
Copyright | |
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