Excerpt from Isolt's Return The story is known only through French literature; but inasmuch as the scene is laid in Celtic lands, it has usually been assumed that the romancers must have used Celtic material, communicated through bilingual reciters, Welsh or Breton, Whose prose narrations may have transmitted the substance of an early Cymric epos. The distinguished advocate of this opinion was Gaston Paris, who considered that modes of life and ideas show a barbaric quality incompatible with admission of French authorship; from a divine and mythologic status, the chief actors have been reduced to romantic proportions. Of late years has prevailed a doctrine that the several romances are to be regarded, not as independently derived from Cymric or other sources, but rather as variants of a single French original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.