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Iseult (alternatively Isole, Yseult, Isode, Isoude, Isotta) is the name of several characters in the Arthurian story of Tristan and Iseult. The most prominent is Iseult of Ireland, wife of Mark of Cornwall and adulterous lover of Sir Tristan. Her mother, the Queen of Ireland, is also named Iseult. The third is Iseult of the White Hands, the daughter of Hoel of Brittany, sister of Sir Kahedin, and eventual wife of Tristan.

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  • She marries King Mark, but Tristan is her consuming passion
  • The discovery of Tristan's affair with this woman, his uncle's wife, leads to the lovers' deaths
  • Half of a pair of doomed lovers, she marries King Mark, but not before falling for the guy who came to get her
  • In medieval legend:Tristan & ____

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