Roman de Tristan vs Tristrant: Which Should You Read?

Roman de Tristan Béroul · 1939 ★★★★☆ 3.7 156 pages · ≈ 2 h 53 m · Challenging

A prose translation of one the earliest versions of the tragic legend of Tristan and Yseult, along with an anonymous fragment concerning the episode of Tristan's madness.

Tristrant Eilhart von Oberg · 1924 155 pages · ≈ 2 h 52 m · Challenging

Eilhart von Oberge was a German poet of the late 12th century. He is known exclusively through his Middle High German romance Tristrant, the oldest surviving complete version of the Tristan and Iseult story in any…