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- Folie_Tristan_dOxford abstract "The Folie Tristan d’Oxford, also known as the Oxford Folie Tristan, The Madness of Tristan, or Tristan’s Madness, is a poem in 998 octosyllabic lines written in Anglo-Norman, the form of the Norman language spoken in England. It retells an episode from the Tristan legend in which Tristan disguises himself as a madman to win his way back to Ysolt. The poem can be dated to the period 1175–1200, but the name of the author is unknown. It is not to be confused with the Folie Tristan de Berne or the fragmentary Folie Tristan de Cambridge, different medieval poems on the same subject, each work taking its name from the city in which the manuscript is now kept.The scholar Frederick Whitehead wrote that it \"handle[s] with humour, vivacity, and poignant feeling the dramatic possibilities of the theme\". The critic Joseph Bédier considered it a more beautiful poem than the Folie Tristan de Berne, and, comparing it with its major source, the Tristan of Thomas, judged that though it has neither the grace nor the preciousness of that romance, it equals it in sincerity and intensity of emotion and surpasses it in energy and eloquence.".