Tristan and Isolde

Japanese: トリスタンとイゾルデ
Tristan and Isolde
A European legend. It was originally a Celtic folk tale, and was sung in many epics, mainly in France, in the 12th and 13th centuries. The best-known of these is the Anglo-Norman Thomas of Wales, and the German Gottfried von Strassburg, who based it on the Anglo-Norman. Tristan, who is sent by his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, to marry the Irish princess Isolde (Iseult in French), accidentally drinks an aphrodisiac on the ship on the way back, and the two fall in love, transcending the laws of this world. Tristan is banished and meets another Isolde (Isolde of the White Hands), but when he is seriously injured and near death, he loses his strength while trying to call Isolde, and Isolde dies clinging to her body. The theme of the purification of love through death has had an impact on later generations, and Wagner's music drama (three acts, first performed in 1865) is particularly famous.
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Japanese:
ヨーロッパの伝説物語。もとはケルト人の民間伝承で,12―13世紀にフランスを中心に多くの叙事詩に歌われた。そのうちではアングロノルマンのトマ作,これに基づいたドイツのゴットフリート・フォン・シュトラスブルク作のものが知られる。トリスタンTristanは,伯父のコーンウォール王マルクの求婚の使者として,アイルランドの王女イゾルデIsolde(フランス語でイズー)をもらいうけてくるが,帰途の船中で誤って媚薬(びやく)を飲み,この世の掟(おきて)を越えて二人は愛し合うようになる。トリスタンは追放され,別のイゾルデ(白い手のイゾルデ)を知るが,瀕死(ひんし)の重傷を負ったとき,イゾルデを呼び寄せようとして力つき,イゾルデもその死体にすがって死ぬ。死による愛の浄化という主題は後世にも影響を及ぼしているが,ことにワーグナーによる楽劇(3幕,1865年初演)は有名。
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