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 Talfan Davies Geraint Talfan Davies Geraint Talfan Davies OBE DL (born 30 December 1943) is chairman of Welsh National Opera. He is also one of the co-founders of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and was its chairman from 1992 to 2014. He is a former chairman of the Arts Council of Wales. A journalist by training, he moved into broadcasting and was controller of BBC Cymru Wales from 1990 to 2000. Davies was born in Carmarthen in 1943 to Mary Anne Davies (d. 1971) and Aneirin Talfan Davies (d. 1980), a Welsh broadcaster, literary critic and poet. Educated at Bishop Gore Grammar