Editing Creiddylad (section)

==In literature==
=== Cordelia ===
Creiddylad is traditionally identified as the prototype of [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s pseudo-historical [[Cordelia of Britain|Queen Cordeilla]], who is the source of [[William Shakespeare]]'s heroine [[Cordelia (King Lear)|Cordelia]] (the youngest daughter of [[King Lear]]). This identification can be found in the 1833 edition of ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HKgMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22creiddylad%22 Google Books]</ref> [[Lady Charlotte Guest]], in the notes to her edition of ''[[The Mabinogion]]'', which was first published in 1849, identifies Creiddylad, daughter of [[Lludd Llaw Ereint]], with Cordelia, "daughter of Lludd, or Lear".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Sp7YAAAAMAAJ&q=%22creiddylad%22 Google Books]; J. M. Dent,(1906) 1927, pp.106, 310.</ref><ref>See also [https://books.google.com/books?id=hh8tAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22creiddylad%22&pg=PA165 ''The Cambrian Journal, Volume 1. Longmans, 1854, Google Books/]</ref> In 1891, Sir John Rhys repeated this identification in ''Studies in the Arthurian Legend''.<ref>Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891, p. 322 (see also [[John Rhys]], ''[[s:Celtic Heathendom|Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom]]'' (1886), p. 562.</ref>

However, Geoffrey's Welsh translators failed to use the name Creiddylad in their Latin-to-Welsh translations of ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', where he used ''Cordeilla''.<ref>See for instance: Henry Lewis (ed.), ''Brut Dingestow'' (University of Wales Press, 1940), ''sub.'' 'Cordeila' (=Cordelia).</ref> Further complicating the association, the legends surrounding Creiddylad and Cordelia are very different. Doubt has been cast on the linking of these two names, beyond "the string of consonants C-R-D-L".<ref>[http://medievalscotland.org/problem/given/cordelia.shtml Sara L. Uckelman, "Concerning the name Cordelia"]</ref>

===John Cowper Powys===
Novelist [[John Cowper Powys]], as an admirer of both Guest's ''Mabinogion'' as well as the work of [[Sir John Rhys]], was aware of the idea that Creiddylad can be identified with Geoffrey of Monmouth's Queen Cordelia.<ref>Sir John Rhys, ''Studies in the Arthurian Legend'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891), p. 322.</ref><ref>See Richard Maxwell, "The Lie of the Land" in ''The Spirit of Powys: New Essays'', pp. 207–8.</ref> In ''[[A Glastonbury Romance]]'', Cordelia Geard's name may indicate a mythological identification with Creiddylad, daughter of Lludd in ''[[The Mabinogion]]''.<ref>''The Mabinogion'', translated by [[Lady Charlotte Guest]] (1906). J. M. Dent: London, 1927, p. 310.</ref> In Powys's novel ''[[Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages]]'', which is set in Wales, Creiddylad, was the eponymous protagonist's giantess great-grandmother, as well as the name he gives to a young giantess whom he mates with.