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
Geraint Thomas a crowd of 8,000 heard him speak. In 2018 he won BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Thomas met his wife, Sara Elen Thomas, through a mutual friend. The couple reside in Monaco, and were married in Wales in October 2015. Welsh-speaking fans of Geraint had begun singing a version of "Titw Tomos Las" by Hogia'r Wyddfa, a popular Welsh-language quintet from the 1960s and 1970s. The song, which is about the blue tit bird (Titw Tomos Las in Welsh) emphasised Geraint's surname, spelt Tomos in Welsh. BBC Radio Cymru promptly recorded an updated version of the song with two