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
Goreu fab Custennin It is Goreu who ultimately slays Ysbaddaden, dragging him to the mound by his hair and there decapitating him. He then placed the head on a stake on the citadel and claims his fort and territory as his own, thus avenging the deaths of his brothers. He later appears in the Arthurian romance "Geraint fab Erbin" in which he is named as one of the four squires of Arthur's court and rides alongside the hero Geraint on his journey to Cornwall. In "Breuddwyd Rhonabwy", he appears briefly as one of Arthur's twenty four chief councillors. The "Welsh Triads" refer to