Talk:Leir of Britain

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[edit] Merging articles

I disagree with the merge. I have been studying ancestoral chains. Llyr Llediaith is different from Lear of Britain (who, confusingly, was also known as Llyr). Llyr Llediaith had male children and lived later than Lear of Britain who didn't have any male children. Llyr Llediaith was actually a descendant of Lear of Britain. Lear of Britain's daughter Ragan married a Duke of Cornwall. Llyr Lediaith was their descendent. --Merond e 11:04, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spelling

king lear is how it is spelt

Actually, um..whatever your name is, there are many different ways to spell it. Llyr, Leir, and Lear are all correct as they were all spellings used for the same person's name. It was often this way in Lear's time. People recorded names based on their sound rather than a standard spelling. So if your name was John, when you were born you could be recorded as Jon, then when you got married it could be recorded as John, then when you died it could be recorded as Jahn even. It just depended on who wrote the recording. As for the name of the article...you may be right. Even though the name can be spelled several different ways, I think that the article name should be Lear of Britain because Shakespeare standardized this form. --Merond e 15:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)