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Alan
M. Kent & Tim Saunders, eds.
Looking at the Mermaid: A Reader
in
Cornish Literature 900-1900.
London: Francis Boutle
Publishers,
2000.
366pp.
Paperback ISBN
1903427010.
Publisher's
recommended price £15.00
This
Reader features
many original texts with facing translations, and contains extensive
selections
from the great works of Cornish literature - the Ordinalia, Beunans
Meriasek, Pascon agan Arluth and The Creacion of the
World
- and brings together for the first time a multitude of poems, letters,
proverbs and songs in Cornish from a variety of sources, all newly
translated.
Dozens of additional texts in English and translations from Latin,
Anglo-Saxon
and French, ranging from the twelfth-century Prophecy of Merlin
to the observations of Edward Lhuyd, W. S. Lach-Szyrma and Sabine
Baring-Gould,
provide a continuous commentary on the Cornish language and culture
over
a millennium.
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