Knights of the Round Table in numerous Arthurian tales (notably the Post-Vulgate Cycle), but he is most famous as the protagonist in Chrétien de Troyes' first romance, "Erec and Enide". Because of "Erec and Enide"‘s relationship to the Welsh "Geraint and Enid", Erec and Geraint are often conflated or confused. In Chrétien's story, Erec meets his future wife Enide while on a quest to defeat a knight who had mistreated one of Guinevere's servants. The two fall in love and marry, but rumors spread that Erec no longer cares for knighthood or anything else besides his domestic life. Enide cries about these rumors, causing Erec
Edern ap Nudd one of Arthur's knights in a list of his retinue, but plays no part in the narrative. Edern also appears in "The Dream of Rhonabwy" (a late medieval Welsh Arthurian romance) in which he commands a "pure black troop" of Danish soldiers allied to Arthur against the Saxons. He is named one of Arthur's foremost counsellors during the battle. Edern plays a more important role in "Geraint son of Erbin" (a Welsh adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes' romance "Erec et Enide"), in which he and two companions, a beautiful lady and a whip-brandishing dwarf, come across Gwenhwyfar, one of her