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Geraint
Sir Geraint of Devon, one of the knights of the Round Table.
He was married to Enid, only child of Yniol. Fearing lest Enid
should be tainted by the queen, sir Geraint left the court, and
retired to Devon. Half sleeping and half waking, he overheard
part of Enid’s words, and fancying her to be unfaithful to
him, treated her for a time with great harshness; but when he was
wounded Enid nursed him with such wifely tenderness that he could
no longer doubt her fealty, and a complete understanding being
established, “they crowned a happy life with a fair
death.”
The Adventures Of Geraint.
Marriage
of Geraint and Geraint
and Enid in Idylls of
the King
"The Tale of Enid and Geraint: In this tale, which appears to be based on the "Erec" of Chrestien de Troyes, the main interest is neither mythological nor adventurous, but sentimental. How Geraint found and wooed his love as the daughter of a great lord fallen on evil days; how he jousted for her with Edeyrn, son of Nudd - a Cymric deity transformed into the "Knight of the Sparrowhawk"; how, lapped in love of her, he grew careless of his fame and his duty; how he misunderstood the words she murmured over him as she deemed him sleeping, and doubted her faith ; how despitefully he treated her; and in how many a bitter test she proved her love and loyalty - all these things have been made so familiar to English readers in Tennyson's "Enid" that they need not detain us here. Tennyson, in this instance, has followed his original very closely." Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by Thomas Rolleston
"Chrestien's story of Geraint and Enid (Geraint has to take the name of Erec in the French) is one of his earlier works, but cannot be called immature in comparison with what he wrote afterwards. In Chrestien's Enid there is not a little superfluity of the common sort of adventure. The story of Enid in the Idylls of the King (founded upon the Welsh Geraint, as given in Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion) has been brought within compass, and a number of quite unnecessary adventures have been cut out. Yet the story here is the same as Chrestien's, and the drama of the story is not the pure invention of the English poet." Epic and Romance, by W. P. Ker
