Enid may refer to:
Enid is a British dramatic television film first broadcast on 16 November 2009 on BBC Four. Directed by James Hawes it is based on the life of children's writer Enid Blyton, portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. The film introduced the two main lovers of Blyton's life. Her first husband Hugh Pollock, who was also her publisher, was played by Matthew Macfadyen. Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who became Blyton's second husband, was portrayed by Denis Lawson. The film explored how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life.
Enid (/ˈiːnɪd/ EE-nid; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɛnɨ̞d]) is a feminine given name, the origin of which is Middle Welsh eneit, meaning "purity", literally "soul" (from Proto-Celtic *ana-ti̯o-, compare Gaulish anatia "souls (?)" attested on the Larzac tablet, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁- "to breathe, blow"; cf. the modern Welsh anadl, "breath" or "wind").Enid was a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859) and its medieval Welsh source, the Mabinogi tale of Geraint and Enid; according to The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names (1983),
Fern von schwachem Geist entfacht des Weisen Licht die
Glut,
Und umnebelt die schwachen Leiber, die dem Blinden folgen.
Was vermag nicht der alten Macht Beständigkeit zu sein,
Wenn Mut und Weisheit der neuen Zeit sich gegen sie
verbünden.
Foreseen is what the willow's haze makes pure again and
light
And whispers to the weak and wound the majesty of
brightness.
Those who promise doubtful pleasures, praising doubtful
promises,
Will be devoured by the painful merciless insight of
future.
Lehr und Sinn saugt aus beständig unantastbar reichem Kelch
Die Flut der aus geschund'nem Geist heraus bekehrten
Sünder.
Nichts verhärmt den neuen Herrn samt Zwietracht und
Verdruß,
Doch Kraft und Glut des Weisen Schein verdrängt, was