Geraint be identified as the real warrior eulogized in connection with the Battle of Llongborth in the poem, despite its title. Bryce identifies Llongborth with the 710 battle between that Geraint and Saxon leader Ine of Wessex. Strathclyde had rulers named Geraint and Erbin/Elfin in the same era, and was also known as Damnonia, after the Dumnonii tribe of the area in Romano-British times, and thus easily confused with Dumnonia/Devon. He is possibly most famous as the protagonist in the Welsh tale "Geraint and Enid", where he becomes the lover of Enid. "Geraint and Enid" is one of the three Welsh
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