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Isolde

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Isolde

In Celtic and medieval legend, the wife of King Mark of Cornwall who was brought from Ireland by King Mark's nephew Tristan. She and Tristan accidentally drank the aphrodisiac given to her by her mother for her marriage, were separated as lovers, and finally died together.


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Dressed in a yellow raincoat and hat, a 71-year-old Charlip is lifted high above the crowd and carried along by a dozen muscular naked men to Wagner's "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde.
Throughout the series Tristan struggles with the dual-sexuality issue while Isolde is quite accepting.
7 Dreamworks/ Universal 5 new Tristan & Isolde 3.
 
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