In literature Cordelia Creiddylad is traditionally identified as the prototype of Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical Queen Cordeilla, who is the source of William Shakespeare's heroine Cordelia (the youngest daughter of King Lear). This identification can be found in the 1833 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.Google Books 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".Google Books; J. M. Dent,(1906) 1927, pp.106, 310.<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.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891, p. 322 (see also John Rhys, Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom (1886), p. 562.
In literature Cordelia Creiddylad is ,traditionally identified as the prototype of Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical Queen Cordeilla, who is the source of William Shakespeare's heroine Cordelia (the youngest daughter of King Lear). This identification can be found in the 1833 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.Google Books 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".Google Books; J. M. Dent,(1906) 1927, pp.106, 310.<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.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891, p. 322 (see also John Rhys, Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom (1886), p. 562.