# Tristram and Isoud **Domain:** Arthurian Literature / Identity / Evidence **Doc Type:** Narrative Cycle Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Tristram and Isoud** names the Arthurian narrative cycle concerning Sir Tristram and Isoud, incorporated into [[wiki/Thomas Malory|Thomas Malory's]] _[[wiki/Le Morte d'Arthur|Le Morte d'Arthur]]._ ## The Sword Fragment Episode In the episode relevant to _Westworld_, a piece of steel removed from the dead [[wiki/Sir Marhaus|Sir Marhaus's]] skull is retained. When fitted to Tristram's broken sword, the fragment makes the weapon's history and Tristram's hidden role legible. The epistemic sequence is: **retained fragment → material fit → identity inference → judgment** ## Westworld Adaptation [[wiki/Sir Rowan and the Lady of Sulon|Sir Rowan and the Lady of Sulon]] reworks the episode for William's childhood book and substitutes Sir Logan for Sir Marhaus. The story becomes an early literary model for the series' later reconstruction of identity from memories, traces, compressed behavior and retained substrate. ## Source - [Malory's Tristram/Isoud episode — Wikisource](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Le_Morte_d%27Arthur_-_Volume_1.djvu/284) ## See Also [[wiki/Le Morte d'Arthur|Le Morte d'Arthur]] · [[wiki/Sir Marhaus|Sir Marhaus]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] · [[wiki/Continuity Evidence vs Continuity|Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]]