TRISTAN AND ISOLDE

Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, Ireland

Historical Setting: Dark Ages of Britain, after the Roman empire had deserted them. So, sometime after 410 CE and before the 600s when we know the Saxons had control over Britain

Note: This isn't a critique on how closely the movie stayed to the original legend (for those who must know, they deviated from it totally and completely), this is about critiquing what the movie presented to us as historical fact. So it doesn't matter that Tristan and Isolde, side-story to the Arthurian legends (who ran away and hid in Camelot for a bit) didn't mention Arthur at all. No Arthur. Now, as I mentioned in my historical review of King Arthur there is a lot of evidence to support the theory that one man was able, for a while, to fill the void left by the Romans before the Saxons took control. His name could have been Arthur, could have been Marke like it was in this movie. Doesn't matter.