Geraint Romances associated with the "Mabinogion". Its story closely parallels the French writer Chrétien de Troyes's "Erec and Enide". Some scholars feel both works derived from a common lost source, but most believe the Welsh version derives directly or indirectly from Chrétien. In this case, the renowned figure of Geraint would have been added to the story to suit Welsh audiences unfamiliar with Chrétien's protagonist, Erec. "Geraint and Enid" was reworked by Alfred Tennyson into the poems "The Marriage of Geraint" and "Geraint and Enid", part of his "Idylls of the King". The Arthurian character in later works is often referred
J. Geraint Jenkins J. Geraint Jenkins John Geraint Jenkins (1929 – 15 August 2009), known as J. Geraint Jenkins, was a Welsh maritime historian and historian of rural crafts. Jenkins was born in 1929 into a Welsh-speaking "seafaring" family based near Llangrannog in Ceredigion; he attended the village school and Cardigan Grammar School, before completing his university education at the University Colleges of Wales at Swansea and Aberystwyth. He graduated from the Aberystwyth in 1950 with a degree in geography and anthropology, and then completed a master's degree there under E. G. Bowen and Alwyn J. Rees. He worked at a museum in