Joseph Campbell
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Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…of marvels enchanted over here that represents the sort of wasteland of love which I spoke of earlier in connection with the Tristan story and the castle of the grail. Here, the wasteland of the spiritual life both the spiritual and the secular worlds of…
…the world too that's all there is that's where the joy is. There's a wonderful word in the introduction to Gottfried Von Strasbourg's Tristan, which I hope to talk about perhaps tomorrow or perhaps this afternoon I'm going to see how much I can tune in…
…who recognize the two and by increasing one increase the other and now let's see how it goes. And then he gives you his Tristan and his all the. Did you happen to see Grotowski's Acropolis? No, there was a Czech who has a repertory company and they…
…and it's good to adventure the adventure cautiously but tenaciously, not rushing too fast. Let me begin by simply reviewing something of the Tristan Motif. The story as you all know is of Tristan, who is born of a mother who dies. Giving birth to him…
…not rushing too fast. Let me begin by simply reviewing something of the Tristan Motif. The story as you all know is of Tristan, who is born of a mother who dies. Giving birth to him his father having already been killed in combat, in nightly combat,…
…father having already been killed in combat, in nightly combat, and so he is, as it were, the fatherless one and he's called Tristan because of the sorrow of his death. At least that's the legend. It actually is another story which would take a half…
…who are going to be taken to Ireland to be sacrificed by these Irish Monsters. The battle with Mordred then takes place, Tristan offering himself as the champion of Cornwall It's a wonderful battle out on an island and the two knights at each other…
…has been made by mother isolda's, whose name is also isolda and she is the the mother is the sister of Mordred. Mordred says to Tristan: you are dead, no one can save you now but my sister will you capitulate and the answer is a blow on the head…
…bit of the sword in the skull. So Cornwall is saved. Mordred's Corpse is taken back to Ireland with the chink in it and Tristan Presently falls sick. He has been bitten, you might say, by that poison which the goddess alone can cure and give. Medusa it…
…with isolda so it is with love. You can die of love or you can be elevated to heavenly rapture by it. Stephen or rather Tristan is now in the dying state so to say. Then we have this marvellous scene of Tristan Knowing that he can be cured only in…
…rapture by it. Stephen or rather Tristan is now in the dying state so to say. Then we have this marvellous scene of Tristan Knowing that he can be cured only in Ireland, having himself put into a little boat which propels itself as the spirit does…
…are completely in love but they don't admit it to themselves. These are people living in terms of their social order. This nut Tristan comes back to Cornwall then and says such wonderful things of isolda that King Mark is advised by all his advisors to…
…that King Mark is advised by all his advisors to take her to wife. So instead of serving his own psyche with his soul girl, Tristan does the social thing. He finds a queen for his uncle King Mark, so he has to go on a second expedition to Ireland to…
…had taken out of and so she comes into him, he in the bathtub, she with this great big weapon and she says: so you are Tristan. No he says I'm trantrist and she says no you are two men and both of them are dead. Then he starts arguing with her and…
…of the anguish as well as the bliss of love. And this is the emotion that Gottfried of Strasbourg celebrated in his Tristan. This poet, Gottfried, regarded love itself the goddess in little German, Minna the Minna Singers were the singers of Minna. Love…
…Minna Singers were the singers of Minna. Love regarded love as a divine being as a divine power. And this, when it assailed Tristan and Isolde when they had drunk the potion, became, as it were, a complete torrent that overwhelmed them so that they lost…
…she sort of left the potion around. She said knowing what was going to happen: this drink is going to be your death. And Tristan says a wonderful thing at this point. He said: what kind of death are you talking about? If this delight and loss of…
…quest, the aim of the grail knight is to heal that King. How can that King be healed, that wounded King? Wagner in his Tristan and then his parsifal identified the wound of love with that wound of the wounded King, what kind of love would heal this…
…Arthur and these tales then finally, at the end of the 12th century, being turned into French and German. The German Tristan and parsifal are the great works of the middle ages. They're the top ones Gottfried of Strasbourg's Tristan, Wolfram Von…
…German. The German Tristan and parsifal are the great works of the middle ages. They're the top ones Gottfried of Strasbourg's Tristan, Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal, and it's of those two that I want to speak this afternoon, the Tristan of Gottfried…
…Gottfried of Strasbourg's Tristan, Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal, and it's of those two that I want to speak this afternoon, the Tristan of Gottfried and the parsifal of wolfram and they will take up our whole afternoon session. You have been listening…
…the love of the god Krishna for the woman Radha, that poem was written about in 1172, almost the same date as the Tristan stories, and in the Fujiwara Court of Kyoto the love theme in the aristocratic circles was associated with cosmic love. In the…
…majesty and on the brink here of a religion of love. This religion of love was actually rendered, I would say, in the Tristan of Gottfried of Strasbourg, Gottfried's Poems. A poem is not complete, he died we don't know why. 1210. Here the potion that is…
…Strasbourg, Gottfried's Poems. A poem is not complete, he died we don't know why. 1210. Here the potion that is drunk by Tristan and Isolde represents the breakthrough of compulsive love. You all know the Tristan story, how he was wounded by the uncle of…
…why. 1210. Here the potion that is drunk by Tristan and Isolde represents the breakthrough of compulsive love. You all know the Tristan story, how he was wounded by the uncle of Isolde whose sword was poisoned by poison fabricated by Isolde's mother, and…
…by Isolde's mother, and the only cure for this poisoned wound could be derived from the woman who had fashioned the poison. And Tristan by device, finds himself in the court of Isolde's mother whose name also is Isolde in Ireland, and is cured. And he…
…who are literary scholars in the arthurian romances, where these knights parading as Christian Knights are actually celtic gods—gods of the Tristan Romance—where Tristan and Isolde like earlier heloise, said: my love is my truth and I will burn in hell for…
…literary scholars in the arthurian romances, where these knights parading as Christian Knights are actually celtic gods—gods of the Tristan Romance—where Tristan and Isolde like earlier heloise, said: my love is my truth and I will burn in hell for it. You…
…is that both terms are present in the same image as it is as they are in life. Gottfried of Strasbourg, in his wonderful Tristan, says: they tell me there are those who seek only happiness and peace. Let god give them peace. I seek the life that has…
…that for us is the high middle ages. It's a very interesting thing. This is exactly the date for the flourishing of the Tristan and his older story in Europe, and these two traditions are of exactly the same essential sense except that the contrast of…
…with 6 000 gopis at once turning himself into 6 000 forms is something a little more well mysterious let me say, than Tristan moping in the wilderness for his whole. Furthermore in the Indian There's always the religious mood, as to say the woman becomes…
…thought it would be amusing to run through a lovely little series of tiles in an abbey in London, in England South London, of Tristan, the Tristan story and we've got them now in black and white so you can see what's going on here. This is Tristan…
…would be amusing to run through a lovely little series of tiles in an abbey in London, in England South London, of Tristan, the Tristan story and we've got them now in black and white so you can see what's going on here. This is Tristan playing the…
…of Tristan, the Tristan story and we've got them now in black and white so you can see what's going on here. This is Tristan playing the harp for King Mark, and I think in that period no one would see that without thinking of David and saul, and…
…Those are the barons hoping that their children will not be given in tribute to markholtz from Ireland there is mark kissing Tristan when Tristan leaves to give battle to markholtz, wishing him well and so forth. This is markholtz's sword coming down on…
…barons hoping that their children will not be given in tribute to markholtz from Ireland there is mark kissing Tristan when Tristan leaves to give battle to markholtz, wishing him well and so forth. This is markholtz's sword coming down on Tristan's Thigh,…
…these entertainers. Now let me just tell you one of the stories, and you'll recognize it a little later as part of the Tristan story there was a Great Irish Chieftain named Finn McCool and he was the protector of Dublin and he protected Dublin for…
…have a happy life together. That was not a mad story but there it is, and this is the story that lies behind the Tristan Romance, as you'll hear in a little while. This is the kind of tale that was being told, transformed into knightly form. Now…
…list of his stories. This is practically the uh outline of the arthurian traditions. His earliest story his earliest romance was the Tristan. This is the key romance of the courtly love tradition and I'll have something to say in a moment. His Tristan is…
…romance was the Tristan. This is the key romance of the courtly love tradition and I'll have something to say in a moment. His Tristan is lost but we have a whole spate of Tristan Romances. One of the most important is by Norman of Britain Robert of…
…courtly love tradition and I'll have something to say in a moment. His Tristan is lost but we have a whole spate of Tristan Romances. One of the most important is by Norman of Britain Robert of Britain Pardon me Robert of Britain and the greatest is…
…them, so invites them back to the court and then, of course they're discovered again and then we're in trouble. Now comes a great crisis: Tristan is to be exiled and iseult is to be tested with an ordeal. She is to take an oath that she has not lain…
…but her husband, and then she is to pick up a red hot iron and if her oath was valid the iron would not hurt her. Well Tristan and she make up an idea to get to the ordeal, the place of the trial, she has to cross a little river and there is a…
…the place of the trial, she has to cross a little river and there is a ferry boat to take her across just a rowboat. Tristan borrows the clothes of the ferryman and when she gets aboard he is the ferryman on the boat. They go to the other shore. He…
…man but my husband and the ferryman who just fell on top of me. Oh that was true, and the iron did not burn her hand. Tristan However, has been exiled and he has to go to Brittany That's the home where he was in the first place. Now soon as he is…
…the horse steps in a puddle and the water splashes up on her thigh and she says to her brother the puddle is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what? And then she tells him how it is. So he goes to Tristan to scold him for this and challenge…
…Donat. At the conclusion of the previous program of transformations of myth through time Joseph Campbell told the story of Tristan and Isolde Two lovers destroyed by love a destruction born of the barren wasteland that was christianized Medieval Europe the…
…the stories of Arthur's Nights. Each night represented a certain might be called spiritual inflection: Lancelot the self giving perfect lover Tristan the overtaken lover. The Eric, the warrior who fell in love and lost his war prestige and then tries to…
…world of courtly love, a realm where matters of the heart become issues of life and death. Campbell concludes with the story of Tristan and Isolde, Two lovers in a world too small for the energy of their souls. It's this idea of the individual and the…
…and in the north. I will tell you the names of the writings of cretan. The first and it's been lost was his Tristan, Gratian's Cretan's Tristan Tristan, and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan…
…I will tell you the names of the writings of cretan. The first and it's been lost was his Tristan, Gratian's Cretan's Tristan Tristan, and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan Apparently, but…
…will tell you the names of the writings of cretan. The first and it's been lost was his Tristan, Gratian's Cretan's Tristan Tristan, and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan Apparently, but then…
…Gratian's Cretan's Tristan Tristan, and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan Apparently, but then a whole spate of tristans, a lot of great tristans, and Thomas of Britain is a major figure,…
…finish this little historical review or pre historical Review, I'll move into the two great stories of this tradition. One, the story of Tristan and Isolde. This is the story of love as the guide, love as a divine infusion, and the date for the early…
…a destiny, and a terrifying destiny, because the social response was death. There's a wonderful moment in the Gottfried Von Strasbourg Tristan which is the Tristan that Wagner took over, where this young couple by accident has drunk the love potion. Tristan…
…destiny, because the social response was death. There's a wonderful moment in the Gottfried Von Strasbourg Tristan which is the Tristan that Wagner took over, where this young couple by accident has drunk the love potion. Tristan is bringing Isolde back…
…Von Strasbourg Tristan which is the Tristan that Wagner took over, where this young couple by accident has drunk the love potion. Tristan is bringing Isolde back to Cornwall from Ireland She's a Dublin Girl to marry his uncle King Mark. When the two of…
…unguarded and the couple drank it thinking it was wine. When she realizes what has happened she's appalled and she goes to Tristan and says to Tristan, you have drunk your death. And there's this wonderful line in the Gottfried Version: Tristan says: I…
…the date for this poem is the 12th century, about 1180 or 1772 I think it is those are the dates for the Tristan Romance in Europe and the whole theme of this rule breaking erotics which underlies the courtly love tradition, belongs to exactly the same…
…the dedication of one's life to love and one would sacrifice everything to it even honor in fact when you come to the Tristan and parts of our stories, the tension is between honor and love. And knightly honor was the highest thing but love was higher…
…soon enough. So and then we have here these signs indicating the nuclear moment of the crisis: temptatio, temptation. The cup of Tristan and Isolde, not of Isolde and King Mark, the marriage arranged for by the society, but the awakening of the meeting of…
…old theme through the germanic tradition, from Mann's Novels to the romantics and back to the arthurian romances like parsifal and Tristan and Isolde, there is a deep thematic connection: the belief that nature what Schopenhauer called the will is an ever…
…power which is the support and being of your own life. This is what we're going to get in the grail the story of Tristan and Isolde. This is the story of love as the guide, love as a divine infusion, and the date for the early troubadours and…
…a destiny, and a terrifying destiny because the social response was death. There's a wonderful moment in the Gottfried Von Strasbourg Tristan, which is the Tristan that Wagner took over, where this young couple by accident has drunk the love potion. Tristan…
…destiny because the social response was death. There's a wonderful moment in the Gottfried Von Strasbourg Tristan, which is the Tristan that Wagner took over, where this young couple by accident has drunk the love potion. Tristan is bringing Isolde back…
…Von Strasbourg Tristan, which is the Tristan that Wagner took over, where this young couple by accident has drunk the love potion. Tristan is bringing Isolde back to Cornwall from Ireland She's a Dublin Girl to marry his uncle, King Mark. When the two of…
…unguarded and the couple drank it thinking it was wine. When she realizes what has happened she's appalled and she goes to Tristan and says to Tristan, you have drunk your death. And there's this wonderful line in the Gottfried Version: Tristan says: I…
…because it was heresy. It was not only heresy, it was adultery, and that was punishable by death. For instance in the Tristan Romance that's the crucial romance Tristan and Isolde Yes, Isolde was engaged to marry King Mark. They had never seen each other…
…not only heresy, it was adultery, and that was punishable by death. For instance in the Tristan Romance that's the crucial romance Tristan and Isolde Yes, Isolde was engaged to marry King Mark. They had never seen each other and Tristan is sent over to…
…Romance that's the crucial romance Tristan and Isolde Yes, Isolde was engaged to marry King Mark. They had never seen each other and Tristan is sent over to fetch Isolde to mark and Isolde's mother prepares a love potion so that the two who are to be…
…wine and they drink it and they're overtaken with this love. But brangain, the nurse of Isolde realized what had happened. She went to Tristan and said: you have drunk your death. And Tristan said: if by my death you mean this agony of love that is my…
…this love. But brangain, the nurse of Isolde realized what had happened. She went to Tristan and said: you have drunk your death. And Tristan said: if by my death you mean this agony of love that is my life, if by my death you mean the punishment that…
…century, about 1180 or so and this poem is about the 70, 72 I think it is. Those are the dates for the Tristan Romance in Europe and the whole theme of this rule breaking erotics which underlies the courtly love tradition belongs to exactly the same…
…out soon. So and then we have here these signs indicating the nuclear moment of the crisis: temptatio, temptation. The cup of Tristan and Isolde, not of Isolde and King Mark, the marriage arranged for by the society, but the awakening of the meeting of…
…proper queen. Now look what you have here you have a person utterly in love who hasn't recognized love. This is the real fault of Tristan and, Isolde she was in love too only didn't know it. Then he's sent back to get Isolde and on the way to King…
…to recognize this in the adventures of our lives we are undergoing the mythological adventure, not knowing it you might say as Tristan and Isolde Didn't realize that the goddess mina had come to their shrine, you might say. Gottfried I'll say one more…
…Tristan's Thigh, the poisoned sword, and this is Tristan's reply: the wound stinks. Isn't that great, can you see? So that's Tristan in his little boat. That's Tristan giving harp lessons to his son. When you're reading Gottfried of this event, you realize…
…and this is Tristan's reply: the wound stinks. Isn't that great, can you see? So that's Tristan in his little boat. That's Tristan giving harp lessons to his son. When you're reading Gottfried of this event, you realize that part of the model was the…
…later on when they were put in monasteries. This is the dragon. Unfortunately the tile is broken but there's the dragon and here's Tristan riding at the dragon and here then is the love potion. You know what that event is that's the one of the ferryman…
…one of the ferryman who takes her out of the boat and falls on top of her. That's she with the hat and this is the Tristan and this is the result coming to heal him at the end. So that's a little review of that story. This is the first kiss of…
…Robert of Britain Pardon me Robert of Britain and the greatest is of Gottfried of Strasbourg, and it's from that that Wagner took his Tristan. Um perhaps I should uh tell the Tristan story right now and then go on uh with the REST of sense of this…
…and the greatest is of Gottfried of Strasbourg, and it's from that that Wagner took his Tristan. Um perhaps I should uh tell the Tristan story right now and then go on uh with the REST of sense of this thing. Tristan is the nephew of King Mark so…
…Tristan. Um perhaps I should uh tell the Tristan story right now and then go on uh with the REST of sense of this thing. Tristan is the nephew of King Mark so we have the nephew motif again. Just as uh German was the nephew of Finn, Tristan was born…
…this thing. Tristan is the nephew of King Mark so we have the nephew motif again. Just as uh German was the nephew of Finn, Tristan was born in Britain the hope the hope of the britons. His father had died before he was born and his mother died after…
…to kill the minotaur and so forth. Well that's what happens here when marholt who was the Irish Emissary to take the tribute arrives Tristan says to his uncle: let me go and fight him all the uncle was really very nervous about this because just as a…
…uh anointed with this poison. Well the two ride at each other and marholt's sword comes smashed down on Tristan's Thigh and Tristan replies by bringing his sword down on marholt's helmet goes crashing right through the helmet into his skull and he leaves…
…keepsake box where she had all those things that so many young ladies have and uh she kept it there her uncle was dead. Tristan However is beginning to stink the uh the wound festers he becomes gangrenous and so forth and uh he says to his uncle: mark…
…a dragon he'd run the other way but he was hoping to be around when that dragon was killed because he wanted his soul. Tristan arrives and here's the message: so goes to work on the dragon and that dragon fight is just wonderful he rides at the dragon…
…the tongue in his shirt. Now you shouldn't do that with a dragon's tongue. The dragon's tongue is poisonous. So this poor stupid Tristan, He's walking back to where he thinks the castle might be when he's overcome with a fainting and he falls into a…
…came the great event of the claiming of the bride. And this other chap comes in with the dragon's head like this, and Tristan just says: let's see what's in his mouth. They open the mouth there's no tongue. He presents the tongue and gets iseult. So…
…C est Le Mer, but she pronounces Le Mer, the sea in such a way that it sounds a little bit like l amour. Tristan Hasn't caught on yet. Presently, benghain, the maid, comes and when she realizes what has happened she is appalled because the marriage is…
…is going to have to take place and here's the love over here. Now comes a wonderful statement in the Gottfried story. She says to Tristan: you have drunk your death. Well he said I don't think I know what you mean. If by death you mean this pain of…
…to angels seem so painful, meister Eckhart says: love knows no pain. That's a beautiful word and this is already stated by Tristan there. Okay, they've drunk the potion, their love, the marriage takes place I won't go into all those details and they are…
…have them killed he says: just get out of my sight. And so now we have the wonderful period of the forest years of Tristan and his wife. Wild love, but more than wild, mystical, wonderful love. They come to a cave that was fashioned by pagans in the…
…brother the puddle is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what? And then she tells him how it is. So he goes to Tristan to scold him for this and challenge him, and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult. Well these people understand…
…says what? And then she tells him how it is. So he goes to Tristan to scold him for this and challenge him, and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult. Well these people understand love all the way, know exactly that it would be impossible…
…love all the way, know exactly that it would be impossible for anyone in that condition to be any other kind of person. So Tristan then in a battle is wounded to the death and the only person that can cure him is iseult, the first iseult. So his…
…that will be the topic for this afternoon's adventure. But before closing, I think I've got about half an hour here. This Tristan is the key romance of the twelfth century chrétien of Troyes. Tristan, which is lost was written about 1160. The Gottfried of…
…I think I've got about half an hour here. This Tristan is the key romance of the twelfth century chrétien of Troyes. Tristan, which is lost was written about 1160. The Gottfried of Strasbourg Version which I've just recited, more or less dates from 1212…
…idea of love was being cultivated. I have to take the happy valley students back ah all right unhappily. Well you've got the Tristan story and you've got the germinalo and Giannis story, and you can see how the first one has influenced the second and…
…of Troyes Bibliography you might say, and it'll be a kind of summary of the main body of arthurian romance. First was his Tristan. Well then ladies who were his patrons, particularly married to champagne, asked him to I don't know who she was, she queen…
…But next comes the great one and it's kraitian's best: Lancelot and Guinevere. Now the ladies were a bit unhappy about the Tristan story because all the love was out there in the woods, the forestiers. This pair dragged the potion and bing they were…
…outline. You see each of these knights represents a spiritual condition that's different from that of the others. There's a Tristan kind of passion. There's the sophisticated elegance of the Lancelot Situation. Yvain is the warrior. There's no love problem…
…through everything is the key together, yes, oh no. Well I can give you one a little later that where they end together. But Tristan says: you know I'll accept even the fires of hell, the gods will do everything they can to you but stay with it and…
…with it and they'll have to back down. If love knows no pain and you're in love the gods can't hurt you. Well in the Tristan it ends badly, but we can go past that we will this afternoon and we're going to end very nicely this afternoon. Yes it is.…
…Tristan Apparently, but then a whole spate of tristans, a lot of great tristans, and Thomas of Britain is a major figure, his Tristan and then the great one, the one that Wagner used is Gottfried of Strasbourg and his date's about 1210, that's to say…
…that's to say half a century after Gratian. Well the ladies of the court were not particularly, not altogether pleased with the Tristan. What happened in Tristan was a young couple drank the potion and were just seized with love and then went out into…
…a century after Gratian. Well the ladies of the court were not particularly, not altogether pleased with the Tristan. What happened in Tristan was a young couple drank the potion and were just seized with love and then went out into the forest. So it…
…to the court. That's the whole problem of life. It's right there in that story do you get me? That's the problem. Tristan, Erech cleges, Lancelot, Yvain, and then Gratian writes the Percival, which is the grail, Gratian's Grail story. So before I come to…
…writes the Percival, which is the grail, Gratian's Grail story. So before I come to the Percival, I'm going to get going now on Tristan and bring out the main points there. There was only about six or eight tristans of the middle ages. The one that is…
…of the middle ages. The one that is most important is that of Gottfried of Strasbourg who died before he finished his Tristan, and you have to continue with the story on which he was modeling his own. The characteristic of Medieval storytelling is: you…
…a traditional story and interpret it, give it new depth and meaning in terms of the conditions of your particular day. The story of Tristan is of a youth and this is a typical epic hero a youth whose parents have died, the son of the widow or the…
…is the King of Cornwall and he is born in Brittany. So here we have this: Brittany and Cornwall, the whole celtic world. Tristan goes to his uncle's castle in Cornwall and arrives just at the time that an emissary has come from the Court of Ireland,…
…and girls to the service of the Irish Throne. This is based on the story of Crete. You know theseus and the minotaur. Tristan arrives just as morehought arrives from Ireland to collect youth and maidens to bring to the Irish court. Now the queen of the…
…isolt, and isolt's mother has prepared a poison which is on the sword. Of morehought who has come to collect the boys and girls. Tristan says to his father, to his uncle, let me handle that guy. His uncle says this is very dangerous. He says no, this…
…very dangerous. He says no, this is the only way. So a jousting, a champion's battle is prepared between morehought and Tristan. Tristan rides against morehought. Morehought's sword comes down on his knee, cuts him. The poison is injected he's he's as good…
…dangerous. He says no, this is the only way. So a jousting, a champion's battle is prepared between morehought and Tristan. Tristan rides against morehought. Morehought's sword comes down on his knee, cuts him. The poison is injected he's he's as good as…
…piece of the sword is pulled out of his head, takes that and puts it in her little treasure chest to remember uncle morhold. Tristan becomes terribly sick. The wound is festering, gangrene sets in and he says to his uncle: just put me in a little boat…
…have recognized that it was her poison that was killing him and who this chap was he called himself he disguised himself his name was Tristan but he called himself tom trist so no one knew who he was. And she is curing him and when the wound has been…
…other just don't know it. He played the harp better than he'd ever played it in his life and the model for this, Tristan becomes her teacher of the harp. The model for this was the story of Abelard and heloise. One century before 1116, where Abelard…
…The model for this was the story of Abelard and heloise. One century before 1116, where Abelard was heloise's teacher and seduced her. Tristan is the teacher of his salt. Now this silly boy, when he's cured he goes back to Cornwall and he says, oh uncle…
…gloriously of this wonderful girl that his uncle and the barons say: well, why don't you go over and fetch her for me? So Tristan now calling himself tom trist again goes back to fetch his salt to his uncle mark. Now you see the courtly love problem…
…calling himself tom trist again goes back to fetch his salt to his uncle mark. Now you see the courtly love problem here. Tristan has fallen in love. His uncle has never seen his salt mark and his salt marriage is standard Medieval Violence. There's no…
…of the courtly love, mark is disqualified. He's simply what is technically called Le Jaloux, the jealous one that's the husband. So Tristan goes back to fetch his salt. Well what has happened has been that a great dragon has begun to trouble the country…
…he keeps hanging around when he thinks anyone's going to kill a dragon he wants to be around. Perhaps he can make the claim. Tristan rides at the dragon. Gottfried was a cleric, he was a low degree priest and no noble, no warrior, and he describes this…
…bites off the first half of the horse and all that kind of thing, but the lance kills the dragon. The dragon expires and Tristan, to state his claim, cuts out the dragon's tongue and puts it in his shirt. That's the worst thing you can do with a…
…so they take him home to cure him. And his sword, the whole equipment is with him. Well nyssault one fine day, when Tristan happens to be recovering pretty well he's in the bathtub now she's fooling around with his sword and sheath and so forth she…
…and there is the thing that came out of uncle morhen's head it fits. So with the sword in her hand she goes in and hits Tristan in the bathtub and he's got this thing up and he says: hold on, you kill me and that other guy gets you. Well the sword…
…wonderful affair of the giving of nyssault to the killer of the dragon. And this lout comes in with the dragon's head and Tristan just says: let's open the mouth and see what's inside there's no tongue. Where's the tongue why? Right here. So Tristan gets…
…dragon's head and Tristan just says: let's open the mouth and see what's inside there's no tongue. Where's the tongue why? Right here. So Tristan gets the girl so now instead of taking her to himself he's going to take her back to King Mark. So you can…
…they. Drink the potion. Now comes a problem, a theological problem. If the love potion compels you to love, then the love of Tristan and nyssault, although it is adulterous, is not a mortal sin. To commit a mortal sin you must have a serious matter,…
…no consent of the will and this is perfectly innocent love. Let's think about that. And so a number of the authors of the Tristan story fixed it up so that the love potion would work for two or three years and then when it stops, sin begins. You…
…problem. So he just says: get out of my sight, go away. And they go into the forest. These are the forest years of Tristan and Isolde. They come to a cave, a carved cave fashioned by the giants of pre Christian times, back to the old celtic germanic…
…they hear off in the woods the blowing of hunting horns. These are the hunting horns of King Mark. He's out on a hunt and Tristan thinks if mark comes and looks down through these and sees us asleep together, this will be too bad. So what does he do?…
…He places his sword between himself and his soul. Do you catch the sense of this honor against love? This is the sin of Tristan, to have put the sword between. And when mark looks down, indeed, he sees the two with the sword between and he says: oh…
…of course is the end of their affair because they continue the affair, they are caught again and this time there's no fooling. Tristan is exiled, he goes to Brittany, but before he goes to Brittany, Isolt has to undergo an ordeal. Now this may have been…
…from the accusation. So she's on the way to this trial and they've arranged that she has to cross a river in a boat. So Tristan, in disguise, takes the job of being the boatman. So he's the ferryman, ferries her across and then has to lift her out of…
…the book. No one knows how he died but they were burning people to death in those days. The statements of that time. Anyhow, Tristan goes to Brittany and now comes the last part of the story. In Brittany he hears of a young lady whose name is iseult.…
…a puddle and splashes and the water splashes up high on her thigh and she says to her brother: the horse is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what and he learns about this and he goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love…
…to her brother: the horse is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what and he learns about this and he goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult and he understands the whole thing. Then Tristan gets into…
…the horse is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what and he learns about this and he goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult and he understands the whole thing. Then Tristan gets into a battle and is…
…goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult and he understands the whole thing. Then Tristan gets into a battle and is wounded unto death. The only person who could cure him would be iseult. He sends his little…
…drank it thinking it was wine. When she realizes what has happened she's appalled and she goes to Tristan and says to Tristan, you have drunk your death. And there's this wonderful line in the Gottfried Version: Tristan says: I don't know what you mean.…
…appalled and she goes to Tristan and says to Tristan, you have drunk your death. And there's this wonderful line in the Gottfried Version: Tristan says: I don't know what you mean. If by death you mean the pain of my love for Isolde That's my life. If…
…We're dealing with something serious here. So I want, in the morning after I finish this historical review to talk about the Tristan Problem. And you see what that leaves leaves a tension between the social order which is imported, implanted and put on…
…right on top of the other. So I'm going to give a view of that and then we'll move into these two great stories, Tristan for this morning and the grail for this afternoon okay so if we can have the machine begin to illuminate the screen here, here…
…I don't know what she did just brushed her hair or something like that and wow he went to it. So this is the background of the Tristan and the grail, this terrific esoteric information of the images, with this apparently just superficial play going on.
…drank it thinking it was wine. When she realizes what has happened she's appalled and she goes to Tristan and says to Tristan, you have drunk your death. And there's this wonderful line in the Gottfried Version: Tristan says: I don't know what you mean.…
…appalled and she goes to Tristan and says to Tristan, you have drunk your death. And there's this wonderful line in the Gottfried Version: Tristan says: I don't know what you mean. If by death you mean the pain of my love for Isolde, That's my life. If…
…and in the north. I will tell you the names of the writings of cretan. The first and it's been lost was his Tristan, Cretan's Tristan and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan Apparently, but…
…the north. I will tell you the names of the writings of cretan. The first and it's been lost was his Tristan, Cretan's Tristan and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan Apparently, but then a…
…was his Tristan, Cretan's Tristan and the date would have been something like 1160 or something like that. His was the earliest Tristan Apparently, but then a whole spate of tristans, a lot of great tristans, and Thomas of Britain is a major figure, his…
…Tristan Apparently, but then a whole spate of tristans, a lot of great tristans, and Thomas of Britain is a major figure, his Tristan and then the great one the one that barney used, is Gottfried of Strasbourg and his date's about 1210, that's to say…
…that's to say half a century after cretan. Well the ladies of the court were not particularly, not altogether pleased with the Tristan. What happened in Tristan was a young couple drank the potion and were just seized with love and then went out into…
…half a century after cretan. Well the ladies of the court were not particularly, not altogether pleased with the Tristan. What happened in Tristan was a young couple drank the potion and were just seized with love and then went out into the forest so it…
…spirit. Others, however were romantic in every sense of the term. Probably the greatest love story of the middle ages was Tristan and Isolde. This tale of star crossed lovers with its duels, dragons and magic potions has remained popular from the 12th…
…of the middle ages. The one that is most important is that of Gottfried of Strasbourg, who died before he finished his Tristan. You have to continue with the story on which he was modeling his own. The characteristic of Medieval storytelling is: you don't…
…a traditional story and interpret it, give it new depth and meaning in terms of the conditions of your particular day. The story of Tristan is of a youth and this is a typical epic hero a youth whose parents have died, the son of the widow or the…
…is the King of Cornwall and he is born in Brittany. So here we have this: Brittany and Cornwall, the whole celtic world. Tristan goes to his uncle's castle in Cornwall and arrives just at the time that an emissary has come from the Court of Ireland,…
…girls to the service of the Irish Throne. This is based on the story of Crete, you know and theseus and the minotaur. Tristan arrives just as marholt arrives from Ireland to collect youths and maidens to bring to the Irish court. Now the queen of the…
…isolt, and isolt's mother has prepared a poison which is on the sword of marholt, who has come to collect the boys and girls. Tristan says to his father, to his uncle, let me handle that guy. His uncle says this is very dangerous he says no, this is…
…this is very dangerous he says no, this is the only way. So a jousting a champion's battle is prepared between marholt and Tristan, rides against marholt, marholt's sword comes down on his knee, cuts him. The poison is injected. He's as good as dead. He…
…piece of the sword is pulled out of his head, takes that and puts it in her little treasure chest to remember uncle marholt. Tristan becomes terribly sick. The wound is festering, gangrene sets in and he says to his uncle: just put me in a little boat…
…recognized that it was her poison that was killing him and who this chap was. He called himself he disguised himself his name was Tristan but he called himself tom trist so no one knew who he was. And she is curing him and when the wound has been…
…each other just don't know it. He played the harp better than he'd ever played it in his life and the model for this, Tristan becomes her teacher of the harp. The model for this was the story of Abelard and heloise one century before 1116 1116 where…
…this was the story of Abelard and heloise one century before 1116 1116 where where Abelard was heloise's teacher teacher and seduced her, Tristan is the teacher of his soul. Now this silly boy, when he's cured, he goes back to Cornwall and he says: oh…
…of this wonderful girl that his uncle and the barons say: well why don't you go over and fetch her for me? So Tristan now calling himself tom Tristan again goes back to fetch Isolde to his uncle mark. Now you see the courtly love problem here.…
…that his uncle and the barons say: well why don't you go over and fetch her for me? So Tristan now calling himself tom Tristan again goes back to fetch Isolde to his uncle mark. Now you see the courtly love problem here. Tristan has fallen in love.…
…calling himself tom Tristan again goes back to fetch Isolde to his uncle mark. Now you see the courtly love problem here. Tristan has fallen in love. His uncle has never seen Isolde. Mark and Isolde's Marriage is standard Medieval Violence. There's no love…
…the courtly love, mark is disqualified. He is simply what is technically called Le Jaloux, the jealous one that's the husband. So Tristan goes back to fetch Isolde. Well what has happened has been that a great dragon has begun to trouble the country and…
…he keeps hanging around when he thinks anyone's going to kill a dragon he wants to be around. Perhaps he can make the claim. Tristan rides at the dragon. Gottfried was a cleric, he was a low degree priest and no noble, no warrior, and he describes this…
…bites off the first half of the horse and all that kind of thing but the lance kills the dragon. The dragon expires and Tristan, to state his claim, cuts out the dragon's tongue and puts it in his shirt. That's the worst thing you can do with a…
…so they take him home to cure him, and his sword the whole equipment is with him. Well we saw one fine day when Tristan happens to be recovering pretty well he's in the bathtub now she's fooling around with his sword and sheath and so forth. She pulls…
…and there is the thing that came out of uncle morhen's head it fits. So with the sword in her hand she goes in and hits Tristan in the bathtub and got this thing up and he says: hold on, you kill me and that other guy gets you. Well when he's…
…wonderful affair of the giving of Isolde to the killer of the dragon. And this lout comes in with the dragon's head and Tristan just says: let's open the mouth and see what's inside. There's no tongue. Where's the tongue why? Right here so Tristan gets…
…dragon's head and Tristan just says: let's open the mouth and see what's inside. There's no tongue. Where's the tongue why? Right here so Tristan gets the girl so now instead of taking her to himself he's going to take her back to King Mark. So you can…
…problem. So he just says: get out of my sight, go away. And they go into the forest. These are the forest years of Tristan and Isolde. They come to a cave, a carved cave fashioned by the giants of pre Christian times, back to the old celtic germanic…
…they hear off in the woods the blowing of hunting horns. These are the hunting horns of King Mark. He's out on a hunt and Tristan thinks if mark comes and looks down through these and sees us asleep together, this will be too bad. So what does he do?…
…He places his sword between himself and his soul. Do you catch the sense of this? Honor against love? This is the sin of Tristan, to have put the sword between. And when mark looks down, indeed, he sees the two with the sword between and he says oh…
…of course is the end of their affair. Because they continue the affair, they are caught again and this time there's no fooling. Tristan is exiled he goes to Brittany, but before he goes to Brittany, Isolt has to undergo an ordeal. Now this may have been…
…from the accusation. So she's on the way to this trial and they've arranged that she has to cross a river in a boat. So Tristan, in disguise, takes the job of being the boatman, so he's the ferryman, ferries her across and then has to lift her out of…
…the book. No one knows how he died but they were burning people to death in those days for statements of that kind. Anyhow, Tristan goes to Brittany and now comes the last part of the story. In Brittany he hears of a young lady whose name is iseult.…
…a puddle and splashes and the water splashes up high on her thigh and she says to her brother: the horse is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what? And he learns about this and goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love…
…says to her brother: the horse is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what? And he learns about this and goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult and he understands the whole thing. Then Tristan gets…
…the horse is bolder than Tristan. And her brother says what? And he learns about this and goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult and he understands the whole thing. Then Tristan gets into a battle and is…
…goes to Tristan and complains and Tristan tells him of his love for the other iseult and he understands the whole thing. Then Tristan gets into a battle and is wounded unto death. The only person who could cure him would be iseult. He sends his little…