Yseut the Fair Timeline and Summary

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• Yseut heals Tristan of a poisoned wound.
• Yseut discovers Tristan by the dragon he has slain, heals him a second time, and decides not to kill him when she discovers that he killed her uncle.
• Yseut's father gives her to Tristan, who gives her to Mark.
• On the way to Cornwall, Yseut shares a love potion with Tristan that causes her to fall madly in love with him, and he with her.
• Yseut carries on a secret affair with Tristan while married to Mark. When she notices Mark spying on her and Tristan from behind a tree, she comes up with an elaborate ruse to convince him they are not lovers.
• Yseut escapes with Tristan into the forest after their affair is exposed; she lives there with him for several years.
• When the love potion wears off, Yseut regrets what she has sacrificed for love. She tells the hermit Ogrin that her physical relationship with Tristan is over.
• Tristan returns Yseut to Mark, but then she and Tristan continue to meet secretly.
• Yseut arranges to have Tristan dress as a leper and carry her across a bridge so that she can swear truthfully that she's had no man between her legs but Mark and the leper.
• Yseut tells Tristan he must flee after she helps him kill two of Mark's barons.
• When Tristan returns to Cornwall disguised as a fool, Yseut refuses to believe it is really him until she sees the ring she gave him as a love pledge.
• Yseut travels to Brittany to heal a dying Tristan but doesn't reach him before his death.
• Mark buries Yseut's body next to Tristan's in a Cornish chapel. Two intertwining trees grow up around their graves.