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.The third plague was that of a giant who stole all the food prepared for the king’s court, except that consumed on the first night.The Coraniaid tale bears a similarity to the despoiling of the Irish Tuatha Dé Danaan by the Fomorii.The Coraniaid seem to be connected with the Corriganed, which have passed into Breton folklore as a group of invisible fairies who inhabit Brittany and are more generally known as the corrigan or korrigan.Professor J.Loth equated the corrigan with the Welsh Tylwyth Teg.Cormac[I] The most famous of the three warriors named Cormac in Irish myth is Cormac Mac Art, the High King, said to have ruled in the historical period a.d.254–277.He was the patron of the* * *Page 67* * *Fianna, the royal bodyguard, during their adventures under Fionn Mac Cumhail.Several tales are associated with him, including a trip to the Otherworld.His son Cairbre succeeded him and destroyed the Fianna.Cornish(Kernewek) The language of Cornwall, deriving from British Celtic (Brythonic), was the ancestor tongue also of Welsh and Breton.Cornish died as a generally spoken community language in Cornwall in the late eighteenth century, although a native knowledge of it was retained by some individuals until the start of the twentieth century, when a language revival was started by enthusiasts.Earliest forms of it as a distinct language occur from ninth century texts.The Vocabularium Cornicum is a twelfth century Latin/Cornish lexicon, also known as the “Cottonian Vocabulary.” The main corpus of early Cornish literature is contained in a number of medieval religious plays, such as Buenans Meriasek, the life of St.Meriasek, the Ordinalia cycle of three dramas, plus the Pascon agan Arluth (Passion Poem).While tradition has placed the provenance of the Arthurian legends and the romance of Tristan and Iseult to a Cornish setting, there are no surviving Cornish manuscripts that record any of the stories.Yet there is an intriguing indication that such sources might have existed.[Some works on the Cornish provenance of the Arthur saga are contained in Henry Jenner’s “The Arthurian Legend,” Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall, vol.LVII, and P.A.Lanyon Orgill’s “Cornwall and the Arthurian Legends,” Cornish Review, No.6, Winter, 1950.]The second great romantic saga connected specifically with Cornwall is Tristan and Iseult.Again, no early Cornish manuscripts survive with the tale.Indeed, the earliest full-length version in a Celtic language is the sixteenth century Welsh Ystoria Trystan, now in Cardiff Library.However, Joseph Bédlier [Le Roman de Tristan par Thomas, Paris 1902–1905] was the first scholar to demonstrate that all the stories of Tristan and Iseult could be traced back to a single poem—one written by Thomas, a French poet of the twelfth century.Professor Joseph Loth believed that Thomas had acquired the poem from a Cornish source.[Joseph Loth, Revue Celtique, vol.XXXIII, 1912, and also Des Nouvelles Théories sur l’origine des Roman Arthurian, Paris, 1892.For a further exposition, see also* * *Page 68* * *Henry Jenner, “The Tristan romance and its Cornish provenance,” Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall, vol.XVIII.]Cornwall abounds with folktales, many of which are comparative with other Celtic cultural traditions.[See Robert Morton Nance, Folk Lore recorded in the Cornish language, Camborne, n.d.Nicholas Boson’s “The Dutchess of Cornwall’s Progresse” is basically a survey of West Penwith folklore (Bodleian Library ms.10714).An excellent study of this is A.K.Hamilton Jenkin’s “The Dutchess of Cornwall’s Progress,” Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1924.A survey of Cornish folktales was made in Robert Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England, 1865, and in William Bottrell’s three volumes, Traditions and Hearthside Stories, 1880.]Cornwall(Kernow).Known to the Anglo-Saxons as “the land of the Kern-weahlas”—Kern-foreigners—hence Cornwall [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]