From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 34065
Date: 2004-09-07
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "CG" <sonno3@...> wrote:
As a side note, many assume that King Lear of Shakespeare fame is
derived from Welsh Llyr, but in fact the two names are
etymologically unrelated.
>
> - Chris Gwinn
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As far as I know, Shakespeare's Lear derived through Holinshed
from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Leir. Even if the story is all
Geoffrey's imaginativeness, how can we be sure the name isn't from a
Welsh Llyr?
Dan