Editing Creiddylad (section)

===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.