Question about ’The Malady’

[mechazoth]

Question about ’The Malady’

I was wondering if the whole thing between Tristan and Iseult of the Golden Hair in 'The Malady' was taken from the medieval tale of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan is a knight of the Round Table, one day drinks a magic love potion with Isolde, they have a love affair, Hollywood makes an awful adaptation a few hundred years later, you know).

 

[Eri94_user70]

Yes.

 

[mechazoth]

Thought so.

 

[macell]

Heh, sure it is. Sapkowski loves playing with the old tales in his writing.

 

[mechazoth]

Like what?

 

[username_2059783]

Like what?

Like about a basilisk

 

[macell]

Like the Snow White (who becomes a bloody avangeress), Beauty and the Beast (where the beauty turns out to be a beast) and many many more...

 

[cammaris]

...tales about Arthur and his knights....and more

 

[macell]

There's also the legend about the shoemaker who killed the Wawel Dragon in Cracow. But I doubt Szewczyk Dratewka is known outside Poland

 

[macell]

I forgot about the Snow Queen (Andersen), I think it was in the 'Okruch Lodu' novel