Tristan leaves Lothian with Gorvenal and some of his other companions. When Tristan expresses a desire to see his mother’s homeland of Cornwall, his father the king agrees to give him a ship so he can travel there. By the time he is a teenager, Tristan is an accomplished and handsome prince. Tristan is brought up by Gorvenal, a courtier who teaches him to hunt, fight, ride horses, and play the harp. His mother, the princess of Cornwall, dies giving birth to him, and his father, King Rivalin of Lothian, is unable to raise his son due to his grief. The story begins with the birth of Tristan. Sutcliff was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Anderson Medal in 1974. Tristan and Iseult received the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award in 1972 and was a runner up for the Carnegie Medal. Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s novel, Tristan and Iseult (1971), retells the story of the twelfth-century romance in a manner suitable for young readers.
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