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After various conflicts, Tristan is banished from Cornwall, and travels to Brittany, entering the service of King Hoel of Brittany. They eventually end up having a clandestine relationship, and are caught by King Mark. She and Tristan both seek to behave honorably by maintaining a distance between themselves. Upon returning to Cornwall, Iseult is wedded to King Mark. Sutcliff herself states that she intentionally left out the love potion as something 'artificial'. Tristan and Iseult are stranded on a distant shore for a few days, delaying their return to Cornwall, and cementing their own love for each other, despite the commitments of circumstances.

These events are shown in light of bringing peace to an ongoing war between the two kingdoms. Tristan defeats a dragon, is once again healed by Iseult, and though given her hand in marriage as reward, promises to bring her back to Cornwall as bride for his Uncle. Tristan is sent on a quest to find a bride for the king, and winds up once again in Ireland. Upon returning to Cornwall, he is involved in a move to have King Mark marry. He lands on the shores of Ireland, and his healed by the skills of Iseult of Ireland, although without actually meeting her.

Having been wounded by the poisoned blade of Morholt, Tristan wastes away, eventually being set adrift in a boat by his own choice. After defeating the Irish champion Morholt, Tristan's identity is revealed, and his position as Champion of Cornwall solidified. He journeys to the Kingdom of Cornwall in effort to prove himself, and enters the service of King Mark without revealing his identity. Tristan's mother is shown as dying in his childbirth, and his name as being from the Latin root word trista, reflecting the sadness of Rivalin at the loss of his wife. Tristan is depicted as a prince of Lothian, whose father, King Rivalin married the sister of Mark of Cornwall, making Tristan the nephew of King Mark. Sutcliff tells the story again in an almost identical manner, albeit greatly shortened, in a chapter of her later Arthurian novel The Sword and the Circle (1981). It is set primarily in Cornwall, and is Sutcliff's retelling of the Tristan and Iseult legend. A re-telling of the ancient legend, it received the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award in 1972, and was runner-up for the 1972 Carnegie Medal. Tristan and Iseult is a children's novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and was first published in 1971.

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