noun
- Also Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance.
- the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram.
- daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- a female given name.
noun (in Arthurian legend)
- an Irish princess wed to Mark, king of Cornwall, but in love with his knight Tristan
- (in another account) the daughter of the king of Brittany, married to Tristan
In English legend, the beloved of Tristan. In German, her name is Isolde. (See Tristan and Iseult.)