Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959) was a British writer and leading authority on the Cornish language, a nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the...
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others affirmed they had never heard him claim to be able to do so. Robert Morton Nance, who reworked and translated Davey's Cranken Rhyme, remarked, "There...
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Crowan) Gilbert Hunter Doble (Gwas Gwendron) Robert Morton Nance (Mordon) Annie Pool (Myrgh Piala) Trelawney Roberts (Gonader A Bell) Joseph Hambley Rowe (Tolzethan)...
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Nance (1913–1976), American jazz trumpeter, violinist, and singer Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959), British writer and leading authority on the Cornish...
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Cornwall Societies (FOCS) was formed in 1924, on the initiative of Robert Morton Nance, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient...
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bremmen y, An wen up caam Tom Bawcock's naam We praesed un to tha sky. Robert Morton Nance, Old Cornwall, 1927 Tom Bawcock is a legendary character from the...
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bremmen y, An wen up caam Tom Bawcock's naam We praesed un to tha sky. Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959) (c. 1930) Stargazy pie is a pastry-based fish pie which...
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the first recorded description was made by Robert Morton Nance in 1927 in the magazine Old Cornwall. Nance described the festival as it existed around...
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movement are referred to by their bardic names, e.g., "Mordon" for Robert Morton Nance, and "Talek" for E. G. Retallack Hooper. Many surnames in Wales derive...
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Cornish as it was spoken in the 18th century, although his pupil Robert Morton Nance later steered the revival more towards the Middle Cornish that had...
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earliest interest in the Cornish language is mentioned in an article by Robert Morton Nance entitled "Cornish Beginnings", When Jenner was a small boy at St...
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Cornish language of the Cornish revival. Developed gradually by Robert Morton Nance during and before the 1930s, it derived its name from its standardisation...
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boys shall knawa the reason why. According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, it was possibly the inspiration for R. S. Hawker's "The Song of...
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Fishermen's Return From Sea". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 21 February 2024. Robert Morton Nance (1963). Pool, P.A.S. (ed.). A Glossary of Cornish Sea Words. The...
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earliest interest in the Cornish language is mentioned in an article by Robert Morton Nance entitled "Cornish Beginnings", When Jenner was a small boy at St...
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his in hopes of a further success. According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, "The Song of the Western Men" was possibly inspired by the song...
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place-names, which Davey was reputed to be able to decipher. However, Robert Morton Nance respelled the song into a recognizable form and provided an English...
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Literature. D. S. Brewer. ISBN 0859913643. Retrieved 17 May 2012. Nance, Robert Morton. "John Davey of Boswednack and his Cornish Rhyme". The Journal of...
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noun troil in the 1880s to describe a Cornish céilidh in Newquay. Robert Morton Nance collected the noun troyl in the 1920s. He classified the word as...
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the Unified form of revived Cornish first put forward in 1929 by Robert Morton Nance. Agan Tavas recognises the validity of any form of Revived Cornish...
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increased interest in the Cornish language started by Henry Jenner and Robert Morton Nance in 1904. The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924...
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out the Cornish Pastie. The Merry Ballad of the Cornish Pasty – Robert Morton Nance, 1898 Pasties have been mentioned in multiple literary works since...
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Cornu-English Literature of Robert Morton Nance’, in Thomas, P. W., and Williams, D., eds, Setting Cornwall on its Feet: Robert Morton Nance 1873-1959, London:...
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exploration and maritime themes. A mural by Cardiff-born artist Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959) depicting tall masted ships on the River Tawe, overlooked...
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Chorus The verse about Saint Michael was added in the 1930s by Robert Morton Nance. The Saint Piran verse was added in 2005. The Aunt Mary Moses verse...
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Harcourt. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-395-78033-6. Ernest Edwin Speight & Robert Morton Nance (1906). Britain's Sea Story, B.C. 55-A.D. 1805. Hodder and Stoughton...
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Cornish National tartan was designed by the poet E. E. Morton Nance, nephew of Robert Morton Nance. Each colour of tartan has a special significance or...
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Harriet Annie and Arthur Smith, and became a collaborator with Robert Morton Nance and Henry Jenner on the Gerlyver noweth Kernewek ha Sawsnek (Cornish-English...
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University Press, May 2005 accessed 16 December 2008 Brian Murdoch, 'Nance, Robert Morton (1873–1959)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University...
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(B2 ed.). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2010. ISBN 978 0 319 24116 5. Robert Morton Nance (1963). Pool, P.A.S. (ed.). A Glossary of Cornish Sea Words. The...
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