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
D. Geraint James Sheila Sherlock, an eminent hepatologist, with whom he had two daughters, Amanda and Auriole. James died on 20 October 2010. 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