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 Evans Geraint Evans Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans (16 February 1922 – 19 September 1992) was a Welsh bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in "Le nozze di Figaro", Papageno in "Die Zauberflöte", and the title roles in "Falstaff" and "Wozzeck". He sang more than 70 different roles in a career that lasted from his first appearance at Covent Garden in 1948 to his farewell there in 1984. Evans was born in Cilfynydd, the only son of William John Evans (1899–1978), a coal miner, and his wife, Charlotte May, "née" Thomas (1901–1923). His family was Welsh speaking, and Evans spoke Welsh