Creiddylad
Creiddylad | |
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Parent | King Lludd |
Creiddylad (also known as Creirddylad, Creurdilad, Creudylad or Kreiddylat), daughter of King
Role in Welsh tradition
Creiddylad, daughter of Lludd Silver Hand, is a lady living at the
Creiddylad has been compared to the
It is also observed that the name of Creiddylad's father (Lludd) and that of Gwyn's father (Nudd) are likely
Additionally, she is sometimes confused with the goddess Creirwy, who is also referred to as the most beautiful girl in the world.[5]
In literature
Cordelia
Creiddylad is traditionally identified as the prototype of
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.[10] 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".[11]
John Cowper Powys
Novelist
See also
- Fflur
References
- ^ Christopher Bruce's Arthurian Name Dictionary: Creiddylad
- ^ Rachel Bromwich & D. Simon Davies (eds.), Culhwch ac Olwen (University of Wales Press, 1988).
- ^ Celtnet's Nemeton: Creiddylad Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0374932395, 9780374932398
- ^ The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids..., Edward Davies
- ^ Google Books
- ^ Google Books; J. M. Dent,(1906) 1927, pp.106, 310.
- ^ See also The Cambrian Journal, Volume 1. Longmans, 1854, Google Books/
- (1886), p. 562.
- ^ See for instance: Henry Lewis (ed.), Brut Dingestow (University of Wales Press, 1940), sub. 'Cordeila' (=Cordelia).
- ^ Sara L. Uckelman, "Concerning the name Cordelia"
- ^ Sir John Rhys, Studies in the Arthurian Legend (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891), p. 322.
- ^ See Richard Maxwell, "The Lie of the Land" in The Spirit of Powys: New Essays, pp. 207–8.
- ^ The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (1906). J. M. Dent: London, 1927, p. 310.