Editing Estrildis (section)

== Post-mediaeval literature ==
Elstridis and her story feature in ''Elstrild'' by Charles Tilney (d. 1586),<ref name="Berek">{{cite journal |last1=Berek |first1=Peter |title=Tamburlaine's Weak Sons: Imitation as Interpretation Before 1593 |journal=Renaissance Drama |series=New Series |date=1982 |volume=13 |pages=68–69 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press for Northwestern University|doi=10.1086/rd.13.43264629 |jstor=43264629 |s2cid=191389670 }}</ref> ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by [[Edmund Spenser]], ''The Complaynt of Elstred'' (1593) by [[Thomas Lodge]],  and ''Locrine'' (1887) by [[Swinburne]].<ref name="Oxford"/>

A variant of the story is told by [[Oliver Mathews]], in which Estrildis is called Sŵs-wên, and [[Locrinus]] builds [[Caersws]] for her.<ref>{{cite book | title=Parochialia | editor-first=Rupert | editor-last=Morris | editor-link=Rupert Morris | series=[[Archaeologia Cambrensis]] | publisher=[[Cambrian Archaeological Association]] | publication-place=London | year=1911 | url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3812192?urlappend=%3Bseq=409%3Bownerid=9007199257593373-425 | page=99 | volume=3 | hdl=2027/uc1.b3812192?urlappend=%3Bseq=409 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | first=Oliver | last=Mathews | author-link=Oliver Mathews | title=The Scituation, Foundation, and Auncient Names of the Famous Towne of Sallop | orig-year=1616 | year=1877 | publication-place=Shrewsbury | publisher=T. W. Bickley & Son | url=https://archive.org/details/oliver-mathews-towne-of-sallop/page/n37 | pages=17–18 }}</ref><ref name="WCD Locrinus">{{cite encyclopedia | title=Locrinus | encyclopedia=A Welsh Classical Dictionary | volume=7 | first=Peter C. | last=Bartrum | author-link=Peter Bartrum | orig-year=1993 | year=2009 | editor=MPS | publisher=[[National Library of Wales]] | page=485 | url=https://www.library.wales/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/new_structure/discover/digital_exhibitions/printed_material/welsh_classical_dictionary/07_H-LL.pdf }}</ref>

The story went on to inspire the folktale of [[Rosamund Clifford]], mistress of King [[Henry II of England|Henry II]], being hidden in an underground labyrinth.<ref name="Worrall 1977">{{cite journal | last=Worrall | first=David | title=Blake's 'Jerusalem' and the Visionary History of Britain | journal=Studies in Romanticism | publisher=Boston University | volume=16 | issue=2 | year=1977 | issn=0039-3762 | jstor=25600075 | pages=215–216 | doi=10.2307/25600075 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25600075 | url-access=subscription }}</ref>