Brother Robert was a cleric working in Norway who adapted several French literary works into Old Norse during the reign of Norwegian king Haakon IV of Norway (1217 – 1263). The most important of these, "Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar", based on Thomas of Britain's "Tristan", is notable as the only example of Thomas' "courtly branch" of the Tristan and Iseult legend that has survived in its entirety. It was the earliest Scandanavian version of the story, … Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Brother Robert. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Robert
