The first thing I wanted to look at in this journal post was just the portrayal of love, specifically in Bisclavret, because, in all honesty, I felt bad for the guy. He bares his soul to the woman he loves (begrudgingly because he's scared of her reaction); of course, her reaction is negative. To be honest, if the man I loved was a werewolf, I would buy him fun dog toys and take him on walks. But hey, that's just me. Instead, she leaves him for another knight and marries that guy. While she leaves, she takes his clothes, the one thing that can make him transform back and forth. In the meantime, the King finds this poor werewolf and takes it in like a stray puppy. It's like the love between a man and his dog... but when Bisclavret turns back human, the king embraces him and kisses him "more than a hundred times." 

Now, to bring this back to the prompt. This isn't a straight love story. The romance is dead in the first couple of pages. He tells her the secret he's insecure about, and she straight up leaves him. There's no trying to win her back. There's no fighting for her affection. Bisclavret felt betrayed and took revenge accordingly. I can't even blame him. The romance here seems to lie in that somewhat odd relationship between the King and Bisclavret in his werewolf form. I wrote a note on line 166 that just says "PUPPY!" in all caps because the king said, "he was very happy with [the creature], it delighted him, for he had never seen such a thing." That sort of fascination and need to protect this creature, how the King says that he "held it very dear" a couple of lines later, that's the romance. We see a kind of twisted relationship between king and knight, between man and beast. It's not a straight love story, and it's not even necessarily romantic love (though it very much could be read that way). I linked a longer form video (it's 15 minutes) that analyzes the relationship further. 

P.S. I really loved the part where Bisclavret bit her nose off, and then none of her children/lineage had noses. Like, yes, I love all of the genetics talk before people knew about genetics, it's awesome. Here is an accurate portrait of the exes son