Geraint (Legendary character)
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- Coghlan, R. The illus. encyc. of Arthurian legends, 1993: p. 112 (Gereint. The King of Dumnonia who married Enid and whose adventures are recounted in the Welsh romance of Gereint and Enid. In French romance the hero of this tale is Erec but, as Erec was not generally known amongst the Welsh, they substituted Gereint, one of their own heroes, for him.)
- Lacy, N.J. The Arthurian handbook, 1997: p. 311 (Geraint (Gereint) Character drawn from Welsh historical tradition. The Welsh romance Geraint tells much the same tale as Chretien de Troyes's Erec et Enide. Both probably derive from a common source. Geraint is the central figure instead of Erec, but his wife is still Enid.)
- Ystorya Gereint uab Erbin, 1997.
- Rawe, D.R. Geraint, last of the Arthurians, 1972.
- The new Arthurian encyc., 1996: p. 182 (Geraint and Enid ... one of the "three Welsh romances". Geraint is the closest of the three to the corresponding romance by Chretien de Troyes, in this case Erec et Enide, though the hero's name is that of a late sixth- or early seventh-century king of Dumnonia (southwest Britain) rather than the Breton hero referred to in French.)
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