Frocin Timeline and Summary

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Frocin Timeline and Summary

  • Frocin tells Mark about Tristan and Yseut's secret trysts, encouraging him to hide out in a tree above their meeting place.
  • Frocin flees to Wales when Mark, convinced of the lovers' innocence, becomes angry with him.
  • Mark's barons ask Frocin to return to help them catch Tristan and Yseut together; Frocin spreads flour on the floor between the lovers' beds hoping to reveal Tristan's footprints there.
  • Frocin deliberately betrays the secret that Mark has horse's ears by telling it to a hawthorn tree while the barons are in earshot.
  • Mark says that Frocin gave him horse's ears, and cuts off his head.