Celtic Literature close readings

1) identify text and context, 2) discuss the significance of the moment portrayed in the passage while making 3) specific reference to the language of the text, and 4) discuss the significance of the passage in the work as a whole.

Quote: "In the name of God and of St. Hilaire, and on these relics and this reliquary and all the relics anywhere in the world, I swear that no man has ever been between my thighs, except the leper who turned himself into a beast of burden to carry me over the ford, and my husband King Mark."

Quote: He was willing for her to have the comb, but first he removed the hair, being careful not to break a single strand. Never will the eye of man see anything so highly honored as those strands, which he began to adore, touching them a hundred thousand times to his eyes, his mouth, his forehead, and his cheeks. He placed the strands on his breast near his heart, between his chemise and his skin. He would not have traded them for a cart loaded with emeralds and carbuncles; no did he fear that ulcers or any other disease could afflict him; he had no use for magic potions mixed with pearls, nor for drugs against pleurisy, nor for theriaca, nor even for prayers to St. Marin and St. James!

What are you asking, for us to do your homework? Those are from Tristan and Iseault if I'm not mistaken and not that many of us keep copies lying around. On the other hand if you have it to read - but maybe not the time - skim it now and read it later because it is very worth reading.

The first one is Iseault swearing she is chaste and only lets her husband King Mark touch her.