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Goofs from Tristan and Isolde: - Factual errors: The poem Isolde reads, John Donne's "The Good Morrow," is a work of the 17th century, much later than the movie's time period.
- Revealing mistakes: When Isolde and Tristan are having their first secret talk in the market, you can see that Isolde is wearing contact lenses.
- Errors made by characters: Isolde's accent constantly veers between mild Irish and English - at some points even sounding almost American.
- Continuity: In the beginning scenes, when young Tristan is carrying his rabbit in his hands past the market stalls, he gets a sprig of something to make his mum the bracelet, and the rabbit disappears from his hands. We know he kept it as it is seen in the scene immediately after inside the keep roasting over a spit.
- Errors in geography: The map in the movie shows Dunluce Castle as being further South than Bangor. Dunluce is actually significantly further North than Bangor.
- Factual errors: Addressing a crowd of his men, King Mark mentions that they all must ride off into the forest that night, citing a tradition to ride out on the night of the full moon. The camera then cuts to a shot of a waxing half moon, followed by one of the men riding off on their "full moon" ride.
- Anachronisms: In the scene when the barons are gathered, Marke addresses one group as the group from York. Since this movie is set just after the Roman withdrawal from England, York would have still been known as Eboracum.
- Continuity: When Isolde is trying to talk to Tristan in the market his hair is parted to the side. When she pulls him off to the side, his hair is separated in the middle at his forehead, his having no time to move it that way, as Isolde was holding his hands.
- Factual errors: After learning of her betrothal to Morholt, Isolde asks, "Am I just a chattel to be traded?" In the Dark Ages (centuries before and after as well) it was customary for women to be traded by their fathers.
- Anachronisms: Marke's castle is stone built in the "motte and bailey" style with a keep and a drawbridge. These didn't exist in Britain until after the Norman invasion - about five hundred years after this film is supposed to be set. Britons, either Celts or Anglo-Saxons built large earthwork defenses or walled their towns with wooden palisades.
- Factual errors: The dogs sitting next to the Irish King in one scene was a Whippets. The Whippet was originally used in Northern England for racing and hunting rabbits, but not in Ireland. The Whippet also only dates back to the 1800s, far after the time frame of the movie.
- Anachronisms: While it is highly unlikely that Isolde would have worn a wedding ring. The Roman custom vanished and did not come back into vogue until the late Middle Ages. In any case, Marke certainly would not have worn one himself. A woman was her husband's property, and the wedding ring was a literal symbol of that ownership. The custom of men also wearing wedding rings is relatively new
- Plot holes: SPOILER: When Tristan asks to be brought to the river when he is about to die, Isolde is back on land despite the fact that a couple of scenes before, he sends her away on the boat and Bragnae stops her from getting off
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