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"Good lord, my name is Tristan, and I learnt these ways in my country of Lyonesse"

"Tristan," said the Master Huntsht you up so nobly; doubtless he is a baron, rich and strong"

Now Tristan knew both speech and silence, and he answered: "No, lord; ess I left his home unbeknownst upon a ship that trafficked to a far place, for I wished to learn how n lands But if you will accept ladly and teach you other crafts of venery"

"Fair Tristan, I ess's son can knohat a knight's son knows not elsewhere, but co you to King Mark, our lord"

Tristan coave the heart, the head, offal and ears; and he taught the hunt how the skinning and the ordering should be done Then he thrust the pieces upon pikes and gave them to this huntsman and to that to carry, to one the snout to another the haunch to another the flank to another the chine; and he taught thenity of the pieces each ether, till they careat castle and round it fields and orchards, and living waters and fish ponds and plough lands, and many ships were in its haven, for that castle stood above the sea It ell fenced against all assault or engines of war, and its keep, which the giants had built long ago, was coreat stones, like a chess board of vert and azure

And when Tristan asked its nael"

And Tristan cried: "Tintagel! Blessed be thou of God, and blessed be they that dithin thee"

(Therein, my lords, therein had Rivalen taken Blanchefleur to wife, though their son knew it not) When they caates and King Mark himself And when the Master Hunts Mark hadof the stag, and the high art of venery in all, yet azed at hi whence ca; but,since borne his sister Blanchefleur