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Joseph Albert - Ludwig und Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Tristan und Isolde, 1865f

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... that 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
... that Laura Ashe believes the Gawain Poet used the beheading game to criticize the emptiness of chivalry?
... that when the Cornish play Beunans Ke was discovered in 2000, it proved to be one of the most significant finds in the study of Cornish literature and language?
... that in Arthurian legend, Brangaine inadvertently sets the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
... that Marie de France's poem "Chevrefoil", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France, recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult?
... that Constans II was a monk before he became a Roman emperor?
... that the head of Constantine III was presented to his co-emperor Honorius on the end of a pole?
... that Eilhart von Oberge's German poem Tristrant, dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the Tristan and Iseult legend in any language?
... that Fire and Sword, a film about Tristan and Isolde, reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur?
... that the preface of a book written by Saint Goeznovius is an important document in establishing a historical basis for the mythical British king, King Arthur?
... that the Green Knight (pictured) of medieval literature is thought by many scholars to represent the Devil due to its strange colour?
... that the Holy Grail tapestries (detail pictured), depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur, were designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle?
... that Natsume Sōseki's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language?
... that the in-production Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur is the first of a planned six-film series?
... that the only written version of the Arthurian ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall" was torn up and used to start fires?
... that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music?
... that John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott (pictured), based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?
... that Arthurian author Nancy McKenzie wrote her novel Queen of Camelot to make Queen Guinevere "into someone a 20th-century person could understand"?
... that Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland displays a collection of local incised Pictish stones dating to the 9th and 10th centuries AD (example pictured)?
... that the 1980 bibliography The Old French Tristan Poems was praised for indexing the fragments of Tristan, a 12th-century poem?
... that the 13th-century French romance Palamedes describes the adventures of the fathers of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
... that the 13th century romance Perlesvaus features a strikingly different portrayal of the Arthurian legend than most texts, including a scene in which Sir Kay murders King Arthur and Guinevere's son?
... that the meaning of "Der Pleier", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel, is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing?
... that such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes, Dinadan, and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan?
... that an illuminated manuscript, the Rochefoucauld Grail, contains what is regarded as the oldest and most comprehensive version of the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail?
... that the Roman de Fergus is the earliest piece of non-Celtic vernacular literature to have survived from Scotland?
... that Tournament of Kings made its host the United States' biggest buyer of Cornish game hens in 2018?
... that Rogelio de Egusquiza's paintings of Tristan and Isolde (one pictured) arose from his decades-long fascination with the works of Richard Wagner?
... that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass panels (pictured) illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur?

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