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162: 146:, in that greater emphasis is placed on pleasing the sensibilities and expectations of a courtly audience. Some scholars have theorized an "Ur-Tristan", an original French version that inspired all later accounts. 105:), left incomplete c. 1210, though fortuitously it covers all those parts of Thomas's work which are lost. Gottfried expanded the story by about a third, while nonetheless remaining fairly faithful to Thomas. 37:
legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of verse, mostly from the latter part of the story. It is calculated that this represents about one sixth of the original.
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Thomas' version is the earliest known representative of the "courtly branch" of the legend, to which Gottfried's also belongs. This branch differs from the "common" or "primitive" versions of
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The Romance of Tristan & Iseult Drawn from the best French Sources and Retold by J. BĂ©dier Rendered into English by H. Belloc
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Although Thomas's own text is fragmentary, later adaptations of his work make it possible to reconstruct what is missing:
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attempted to reconstruct this original from the evidence provided by the later versions.
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Text of three fragments and modern French translation
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Tristan of Thomas of Britain
Complete text of three fragments
Text of three fragments and modern French translation
The Carlisle Fragment of Thomas's Tristan
Text of 6 fragments
The Romance of Tristan & Iseult Drawn from the best French Sources and Retold by J. BĂ©dier Rendered into English by H. Belloc

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