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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have been Cornish bards, including Dame Alida Brittain, Ken George, R. Morton Nance, and Peter Berresford Ellis. After 1939 the Council of the Gorsedd of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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the village probably means valley of Clodri or valley of Cludri. Robert Morton Nance, one of the chief revivers of the Cornish language, lived in Nancledra...
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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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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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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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in Cornish folk culture since the creation of Golowan's Penglaz. Robert Morton Nance expressed the view that "the May day games and Morris Dances, with...
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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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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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was that of Robert Morton Nance who outlined his work in Cornish for All in 1929. Unlike the Late Cornish-based work of Jenner, Nance's orthography,...
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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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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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former Grand Bard of Gorseth Kernow Richard Jenkin. Printed in Robert Morton Nance's Unified Cornish orthography, it published a number of new writers...
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