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kerowyn-ankh:

“Child, it is yours to go with Iseult to King Mark’s country,

for you love her with a faithful love. Take then this pitcher and remember

well my words. Hide it so that no eye shall see nor no lip go near it: but

when the wedding night has come and that moment in which the wedded are

left alone, pour this essenced wine into a cup and offer it to King Mark

and to Iseult his queen. Oh! Take all care, my child, that they alone

shall taste this brew. For this is its power: they who drink of it

together love each other with their every single sense and with their

every thought, forever, in life and in death.”

Day 2: Tristan and Iseult (yes my definition of “British” folklore is very loose)

I love this story– it’s amazing that a romance based on a love potion can still be so moving and heartbreaking.