Sismondi, Lit

of the South of Europe, I. 408. Tri otin (tre-sō-tan'). A "pédant" in Molière's "Les femmes savantes," intended to ridicule the Abbé Cotin. Tristan (tris'tan). A prose Breton or Cornish romance. The first part was written or translated about 1170 by a Norman knight, Luces de Gast, who lived near Salisbury in the time of Henry II. The second part was written by Hélie de Borron, who connected Tristan ("Tris tram" in the Old English form) with the Round Table romances. The name appears in many forms, as Tristan , Tristans, Tristanz, Tristant , Tristran, Tristranz , Tristrant, Trystren , Tristram, Tristrem , Trystrem, Trust ram , Tritan , Tritans , Tritanz , and was a ociated with the Latin trist is , sorrowful.