The Chair of Idris
On the very summit of Cader-Idris (a mountain peak in Merionethshire, Wales) is an excavation in the solid rock, resembling a couch. It is said to be the chair of Idris the giant, after whom the mountain was named. Tradition says, that whoever rests for a night in this seat will be found the next morning either dead, or a raving maniac, or endued with supernatural powers. This excavation is probably the "Chair of Idris" to which Tennyson refers in "Enid," where Geraint says,--
"He felt, were she the prize of bodily force,
Himself beyond the rest pushing could move
The chair of Idris,"
Himself beyond the rest pushing could move
The chair of Idris,"
as it is situated in what is supposed to have been King Arthur's territory, and as Geraint was a knight of his court.