Enide Enide Enide () is a character in Arthurian romance. She is the wife of Erec in Chrétien de Troyes' "Erec and Enide", and that of Geraint in the Welsh Romance of "Geraint and Enid" (analogous to Chrétien's version). Some scholars believe the French and Welsh tales derive from a lost common source, but it seems more likely "Geraint" derives directly or indirectly from "Erec", though Chrétien may have had a Welsh or Breton source. Enide and Geraint/Erec meet while the hero is on a mission to defeat a cruel knight, and her family provides him with armor and food. They
Geraint H. Jenkins founding fellows of the Learned Society of Wales on its inception in 2010. He received a doctor of letters degree from the University of Wales in 1994. Geraint H. Jenkins Geraint Huw Jenkins, FBA, FLSW (born 24 January 1946) is a historian of Wales and a retired academic. He was Professor of Welsh History at the Aberystwyth University (then University College of Wales, Aberystwyth) from 1990 to 1993, when he became Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. In 2009, he retired from academia and was appointed Professor Emeritus of Welsh History at the