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
Geraint Talfan Davies Geraint Talfan Davies Geraint Talfan Davies OBE DL (born 30 December 1943) is chairman of Welsh National Opera. He is also one of the co-founders of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and was its chairman from 1992 to 2014. He is a former chairman of the Arts Council of Wales. A journalist by training, he moved into broadcasting and was controller of BBC Cymru Wales from 1990 to 2000. Davies was born in Carmarthen in 1943 to Mary Anne Davies (d. 1971) and Aneirin Talfan Davies (d. 1980), a Welsh broadcaster, literary critic and poet. Educated at Bishop Gore Grammar