Geraintʹ (g hard)

Tributary Prince of Devon, and one of the knights of the Round Table. Overhearing part of Eʹnid’s words, he fancied she was faithless to him, and treated her for a time very harshly; but Enid nursed him so carefully when he was wounded that he saw his error, “nor did he doubt her more, but rested in her fealty, till he crowned a happy life with a fair death.” (Tennyson: Idylls of the King; Enid.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.