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It is of course also true that there were more of the same 

 name, and that the Geraint of the Goclodin may not be the same 

 as Greraint of Cornwall. But the Welsh pedigrees are singularly 

 unanimous concerning him. Greraint ap Erbin and his family 

 occur in them all without variations. 



He was the son of Erbin, whom I have identified with 

 S. Ervan, and was grandson of Constantino Grorneu or the 

 Cornishman. A Prince by right of birth, he was constrained to 

 fight for his throne and people against the Saxons. 



His wife was that touchingly beautiful character, Enid, whose 

 story has been revived by Tennyson. By this sweet woman, he 

 was father of five sons and one daughter. His son Cador or 

 Cado, became Duke of Cornwall, and is associated with Ai-thur in 

 romance. Another son, Solomon or Selyf, was King, and father 

 of S. Cybi or Cuby. 



Another, Cyngar, was the Saint already referred to under 

 the name of Docwin. Another, Jestin or Justinian has been 

 supplanted by S. Just, but is not quite forgotten in Brittany. 



A good deal of romance is associated with the Domnonian 

 Prince Greraint, and has been worked up to form one of the tales 

 in the Mabinogion. Greraint' s name occurs in the legend of S. 

 Senan. According to the story Senan was dining with the King, 

 when news reached the latter that one of his servants had been 

 killed by wolves. In return for his dinner, Senan restored the 

 man to life. Senan died in 544, and Geraint fell at Longborth 

 in 522, so that it is qtiite possible that Senan and Geraint may 

 have met. Senan is the Sennan of Land's End. 



Geraint is spoken of in terms of high enconium in the 

 Gododin of Aneurin (Myrr. Archaeol. I., 13). His only son who 

 was not a saint was Garwy, who was celebrated as one of the 

 three amorous and courteous Knights of Arthur's Court (Tr. 119). 



There was another Geraint, who is not to be confounded 

 with the Saint, who was probably his grandson, who figures in 

 Arthur's latest battles. In the life of S. Teilo this prince is 

 mentioned. When the Saint was going to Armorica at the head 

 of a large migration of his countrymen, at the time of the 

 Yellow Death, about 547, which was then desolating Wales, and 

 which carried off Maelgwn Gwynedd, he was hospitably received 



