Geraint Romances associated with the "Mabinogion". Its story closely parallels the French writer Chrétien de Troyes's "Erec and Enide". Some scholars feel both works derived from a common lost source, but most believe the Welsh version derives directly or indirectly from Chrétien. In this case, the renowned figure of Geraint would have been added to the story to suit Welsh audiences unfamiliar with Chrétien's protagonist, Erec. "Geraint and Enid" was reworked by Alfred Tennyson into the poems "The Marriage of Geraint" and "Geraint and Enid", part of his "Idylls of the King". The Arthurian character in later works is often referred
D. Geraint James D. Geraint James David Geraint James FRCP (2 January 1922 - 20 October 2010) was a Welsh doctor, who specialised in sarcoidosis. He was born in Treherbert, Wales and trained at the University of Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital, London. He joined the wartime Royal Navy and served as doctor to a small fleet of minesweepers. After the war he returned to London and went to work for Professor John Scadding at the Brompton Chest Hospital, where he first became interested in sarcoidosis. In 1959 he moved to the Royal Northern Hospital in Holloway Road, London and set up a