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 Goodwin Geraint Goodwin Arthur Geraint Goodwin (1 May 1903 – 10 October 1941) was a Welsh journalist, novelist and short story writer from near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, who wrote about rural life on the Welsh border. His first novel, published in 1935, was the autobiographical "Call Back Yesterday". Goodwin's most acclaimed work, "The Heyday in the Blood" appeared in 1936 and his last novel, "Come Michaelmas" in 1939. In 1975 "The Heyday in the Blood" was translated into Welsh. He was born in the village of Llanllwchaearn, on the outskirts of Newtown, Montgomeryshire]], the son of Richard Goodwin (1862–1911) and Mary Jane