Three Welsh Romances ability. The couple is happily reconciled in the end, and Geraint inherits his father's kingdom. Enid does not appear in Welsh sources outside of this romance, but Geraint was already a popular figure. Some scholars hold that the Erec from Chrétien's poem is based on Geraint, but others think the Welsh author simply replaced an unfamiliar French name with one his audience would recognize and associate with heroism. Alfred, Lord Tennyson based two of his "Idylls of the King" on "Geraint and Enid". They were originally published as a single poem called "Enid" in 1859; he later split it into
Ywain accounts. He remains Urien's son in virtually all literature in which he appears, whereas other characters in Arthurian legend based on historical figures, for instance Sir Kay, lost their original familial connections in romance literature. Ywain, the character of the romances, takes his name from Owain mab Urien, a historical figure of the 6th-century kingdom of Rheged at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. His name was recorded in the bardic tradition of Taliesin and became a legendary character in the Welsh Triads, where his father, sister, horse and personal bard are all acclaimed but his wife Penarwan