Enide Enide Enide () is a character in Arthurian romance. She is the wife of Erec in Chrétien de Troyes' "Erec and Enide", and that of Geraint in the Welsh Romance of "Geraint and Enid" (analogous to Chrétien's version). Some scholars believe the French and Welsh tales derive from a lost common source, but it seems more likely "Geraint" derives directly or indirectly from "Erec", though Chrétien may have had a Welsh or Breton source. Enide and Geraint/Erec meet while the hero is on a mission to defeat a cruel knight, and her family provides him with armor and food. They
Geraint of Dumnonia After Geraint's death, however, Ine was unable to establish his authority over neighbouring Cornwall; in 722, according to the "Annales Cambriae", the Cornish won the Battle of Hehil, probably against Wessex. Derek Bryce, following other scholars, suggests Geraint of Dumnonia be identified as the real warrior eulogized for his deeds at the Battle of Llongborth in the poem "Geraint son of Erbin" (10th–11th century, traditionally ascribed to Llywarch Hen), although its title names an earlier, 5th-century Geraint of dubious historicity. Bryce identifies Llongborth with the 710 battle between Geraint and Ine, and suggests Langport in Somerset as the location of