Tristan Davis

Tristan Dion Davis (born May 5, 1986) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Auburn University.

Davis has also been a member of the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Minnesota Vikings and Washington Redskins. He retired from football on July 30, 2013 without playing a single regular season game in his entire career

Early years

Davis was born in Atlanta, Georgia, attended Tri-Cities High School, in East Point, Georgia and was a standout athlete for the Tri-Cities Bulldogs baseball, football and track teams. Davis also earned All-America honors in baseball and track.

College career

Davis led the SEC in Kickoff Return Yards Per Return in 2006 (27.0 ypr) and 2008 (27.4 ypr)and also led the SEC & NCAA in Kickoff Return Yards for Touchdowns in 2008.

Professional career

Detroit Lions

Davis signed with the Detroit Lions on August 24, 2009 as an undrafted free agent. On September 5, he was released and signed to the team's practice squad the next day. He was released on October 30, 2009.

Tristan

Tristan (Latin & Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Trystan), also known as Tristram, is the male hero of the Arthurian Tristan and Iseult story. He was a Cornish knight of the Round Table. He is the son of Blancheflor and Rivalen (in later versions Isabelle and Meliodas), and the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, sent to fetch Iseult back from Ireland to wed the king. However, he and Iseult accidentally consume a love potion while en route and fall helplessly in love. The pair undergo numerous trials that test their secret affair.

Tristan legend cycle

Tristan made his first medieval appearance in the twelfth century in Celtic mythology circulating in the north of France and the Kingdom of Brittany, which had close ancestral and cultural links with Cornwall by way of the ancient British kingdom of Dumnonia, as made clear in the story itself, and the closely related Cornish and Breton languages. Although the oldest stories concerning Tristan are lost, some of the derivatives still exist. Most early versions fall into one of two branches, the "courtly" branch represented in the retellings of the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas of Britain and his German successor Gottfried von Strassburg, and in the Folie Tristan d'Oxford; and the "common" branch, including the works of the French. The name Tristan is also known as "Trischin" in the Maltese culture.

Tristan (Guinea)

Tristan (also: Tristao) is the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands, Guinea. Its area is 226 km².

Coordinates: 10°52′N 14°55′W / 10.867°N 14.917°W / 10.867; -14.917

Tristan (name)

Tristan or Tristram is a given name of Welsh origin. It originates from the Brythonic name Drust or Drustanus. It derives from a stem meaning "noise", seen in the modern Welsh noun trwst (plural trystau) and the verb trystio "to clatter". The name has also been interpreted as meaning "bold."

It became popularized through the character of Tristan, one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. The modern form is most likely influenced by the Latin root tristis (tant triste in the medieval French version of the myth), meaning "sad" or "sorrowful". The recent rise in the name Tristan is also attributed to a movie character of the same name played by actor Brad Pitt in the film Legends of the Fall.

Tristan is the 87th most popular baby name in the United States, and has been consistently among the top 1,000 names given to baby boys since 1971. There are various alternate forms of the name (popularity in parentheses): Tristen (1432), Triston (326), Tristin (536), Tristian (423), Trystan (5000), and Trysten (1).