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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4405987, member: 5833"]Have been rolling around in my head the possibility of Tristan & Isolde. I'm only familiar with the story of Tristram as it is told as part of Le Morte d'Arthur, which does not relate anything about him before he is a knight. If there's an episode of his uncle Mark dragging him away from a girlfriend, it's not in the version I know.</p><p><br /></p><p>By convention Paris wears a Phrygian cap. This is a scene of Hector upbraiding Paris for not fighting, from a Poniatowski gem.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]373308[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The adult male breaking up the party is wearing garb that suggests the Middle East, which is often a clue that a scene is from the Bible. This insight is not helping me. Faithful dogs are not a big feature of Biblical stories, are they?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4405987, member: 5833"]Have been rolling around in my head the possibility of Tristan & Isolde. I'm only familiar with the story of Tristram as it is told as part of Le Morte d'Arthur, which does not relate anything about him before he is a knight. If there's an episode of his uncle Mark dragging him away from a girlfriend, it's not in the version I know. By convention Paris wears a Phrygian cap. This is a scene of Hector upbraiding Paris for not fighting, from a Poniatowski gem. [ATTACH=full]373308[/ATTACH] The adult male breaking up the party is wearing garb that suggests the Middle East, which is often a clue that a scene is from the Bible. This insight is not helping me. Faithful dogs are not a big feature of Biblical stories, are they?[/QUOTE]
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