Enide

In the common story, Enide and her lover meet while the hero is on a mission to defeat a cruel knight, and her family provides him with armor and food.

They fall in love and marry, but the hero begins to forsake his social and chivalric duties for domestic bliss.

In Chrétien's version, Erec begins to question Enide's love, but in Geraint the protagonist misunderstands her sobs and thinks she has been unfaithful to him.

In both romances, the hero makes her accompany him on a long and dangerous trip, and forbids her to talk to him.

Over the course of the trip, Erec/Geraint proves his abilities as a knight have not faded and accepts that Enide's love and loyalty are genuine, and the couple is reconciled.