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Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted or created by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century ''History of the Kings of Britain''.〔 According to Geoffrey's genealogy of the British dynasty, Leir's reign would have occurred around the 8th century . The story was modified and retold by William Shakespeare in his Elizabethan tragedy ''King Lear''.〔 ==Name== Leir's name has often been derived from the British sea god Llyr (cf. his Irish equivalent Ler),〔 "Many trace Shakespear's Lear to Llŷr, but the route is tortuous; Shakespeare drew from Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)" Mackillop, James (1998), Dictionary of Celtic Mytholgy, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192801201, p. 301, under "Llŷr".〕 whose name derived from the Brittonic word for "sea", reconstructed as *''Leros''.〔 However, Geoffrey ostensibly connects Leir's to the name of Leicester (,〔Nennius (). Theodor Mommsen (). ''Historia Brittonum'', VI. Composed after 830. Hosted at Latin Wikisource.〕 (ウェールズ語:Caerlŷr)), which he called ''Kaerleir''.〔 The name ''Cair Lerion'' is thought to derive from an old name of the River Soar, whose ford it protected. The Brittonic original has been reconstructed as either *''Ligera'' or *''Ligora''.〔〔〔 In this case, Geoffrey's Leir would be unrelated to the sea-god ''Llyr''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leir of Britain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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