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Geraint, the Glossary

Geraint is a character from Welsh folklore and Arthurian legend, a valiant warrior possibly related to the historical Geraint, an early 8th-century king of Dumnonia.^[1]

39 relations: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Aneirin, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Battle of Catraeth, Chrétien de Troyes, Culhwch and Olwen, Devon, Dumnonia, Dumnonii, Dywel fab Erbin, Enide, Erbin of Dumnonia, Erec and Enide, Falmouth, Cornwall, Folk saint, Geraint of Dumnonia, Geraint son of Erbin, Gerontius, Gerrans, Historicity of King Arthur, Idylls of the King, Ine of Wessex, Knights of the Round Table, Llandaff, Llywarch Hen, Mabinogion, Matter of Britain, Patron saint, Plague of Justinian, Portsmouth, Roman Britain, Saint Teilo, Samson of Dol, Strathclyde, Three Welsh Romances, Veryan, Welsh mythology, Welsh Triads, Y Gododdin.
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Monarchs of Dumnonia
Southwestern Brythonic saints

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.

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Aneirin

Aneirin, also rendered as Aneurin or Neirin, was an early Medieval Brythonic war poet who lived during the 6th century.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Battle of Catraeth

The Battle of Catraeth was fought around AD 600 between a force raised by the Gododdin, a Brythonic people of the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain, and the Angles of Bernicia and Deira.

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Chrétien de Troyes

Chrétien de Troyes (Crestien de Troies; 1160–1191) was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects such as Gawain, Lancelot, Perceval and the Holy Grail.

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Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen) is a Welsh tale that survives in only two manuscripts about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors: a complete version in the Red Book of Hergest,, and a fragmented version in the White Book of Rhydderch,.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Dumnonia

Dumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries CE in the more westerly parts of present-day South West England.

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Dumnonii

The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.

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Dywel fab Erbin

Dywel fab Erbin is a minor character and warrior of Welsh tradition, the son of Erbin and the brother of Geraint and Ermid. Geraint and Dywel fab Erbin are Arthurian characters.

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Enide

Enide (Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance. Geraint and Enide are Arthurian characters.

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Erbin of Dumnonia

Erbin of Dumnonia (Latin: Urbanus; c. 427 – c. 480) was a 5th-century King of Dumnonia (now Cornwall and Devon) and saint of Wales. Geraint and Erbin of Dumnonia are Monarchs of Dumnonia.

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Erec and Enide

Erec and Enide (Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170.

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Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth (label) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Folk saint

Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities (such as indigenous spirits) venerated as saints, but not officially canonized.

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Geraint of Dumnonia

Geraint (died 710), known in Latin as Gerontius, was a king of Dumnonia who ruled in the early 8th century. Geraint and Geraint of Dumnonia are Monarchs of Dumnonia.

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Geraint son of Erbin

Geraint son of Erbin (Middle Welsh Geraint uab Erbin) is a medieval Welsh poem celebrating the hero Geraint and his deeds at the Battle of Llongborth.

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Gerontius

Gerontius (Latinized Greek for 'old man') can refer to.

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Gerrans

Gerrans (Gerens) is a coastal civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Historicity of King Arthur

The historicity of King Arthur has been debated both by academics and popular writers.

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Idylls of the King

Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

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Ine of Wessex

Ine or Ini, (died in or after 726) was King of Wessex from 689 to 726.

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Knights of the Round Table

The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century. Geraint and knights of the Round Table are Arthurian characters.

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Llandaff

Llandaff (Llandaf; from llan 'church' and Taf) is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

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Llywarch Hen

Llywarch Hen ("Llywarch the Old"; c. 534 – c. 608), was a prince and poet of the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged, a ruling family in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain (modern southern Scotland and northern England).

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Mabinogion

The Mabinogion are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain.

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Matter of Britain

The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Plague of Justinian

The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Saint Teilo

Saint Teilo (Teliarus or Teliavus; TeliauWainewright, John. "" in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1912. Accessed 20 July 2013. or Telo; Télo or Théleau; – 9 February), also known by his Cornish name Eliud, was a British Christian monk, bishop, and founder of monasteries and churches. Geraint and Saint Teilo are 6th-century Christian saints and medieval Welsh saints.

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Samson of Dol

Samson of Dol (also Samsun; born late 5th century) was a Welsh saint, who is also counted among the seven founder saints of Brittany with Pol Aurelian, Tugdual or Tudwal, Brieuc, Malo, Patern (Paternus) and Corentin. Geraint and Samson of Dol are 6th-century Christian saints and medieval Welsh saints.

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Strathclyde

Strathclyde (Ystrad Clud in Northern Brittonic; Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic, meaning 'strath of the River Clyde') was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

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Three Welsh Romances

The Three Welsh Romances (Welsh: Y Tair Rhamant) are three Middle Welsh tales associated with the Mabinogion.

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Veryan

Veryan (Cornish: Elerghi) is a coastal civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.

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Welsh Triads

The Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydein, "Triads of the Island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three.

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Y Gododdin

Y Gododdin is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named Catraeth in about AD 600.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraint

Also known as Geraint ab Erbin, Geraint mab Erbin, Geraint, son of Erbin, Gereint, Gerren Llyngesog, Keraint, Saint Geraint, Sir Geraint, St Geraint.

Geraint, the Glossary

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See also

Knights of the Round Table

Monarchs of Dumnonia

Southwestern Brythonic saints

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