Note 12 — KILHWCH[10] AND OLWEN; OR, THE TWRCH TRWYTH.

"Creiddylad" is the old Welsh name out of which the English tongue has made "Cordelia;" and this lady is no other than the loving daughter of King Lear. Lear's name in the Welsh originals lying far back beyond Shakspere's play is sometimes "Llyr" (as in "Manawyddan, the son of Llyr," who gives name to one of the Mabinogion), and sometimes, as here, "Lludd Llaw Ereint."