Dedh Cans Deg warn Ügens

De Merher, degves mis Me

Wednesday, 10th May


















Thera âwthores ajonys dres oll an bes trigys en Lanwedhenek ha Nans Fenten moy es cansbledhen alebma. (Hei a verwas en nawnjek cans trei warn ügens.) Eus clowys gena whei a Nellie Sproggett? Nag ew hei aswonys e'n jedh hedhyw.  Martesen an henwyn Nellie Cornwall po Enys Tregarthen ew godhvedhys genowgh. Tho an keth benyn. Vysytoryon a dheuth dhort America rag hy omweles. Gen hanow "Nellie Cornwall" hei a scrifas etek lever rag tüs yonk - whedhlow cryjyk, ownhenjek. Nebes anodhans a veu kemerys dres mor (martesen gen tüs bal). Ma "An Veteth an Enawel", dyllys en nawnjek cans, en Leverva Nacyonal a Âwstraly lebmyn. Avel "Enys Tregarthen" (an hanow ew mystry) hei a scrifas adro dhe'n Bobel Vian, oll sortow spryjyon. Ma bewscrif gen Dr Simon Young ha ma hei en disqwedhyans en Kresen Kernow. Nag o an tavas Kernowek marow et hy bownans. Whei ell trouvya nebes geryow et hy whedhlow, rag sampel "hager". Whei ell redya hy whedhlow heb cost en Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37245/37245-h/37245-h.htm



There was a world-famous author living in Padstow and Little Petherick more than a century ago. (She died in 1923.) Have you heard of Nellie Sproggett? She's not famous nowadays. Perhaps you know the names Nellie Cornwall or Enys Tregarthen. It was the same woman. Visitors came from America to visit her. By the name "Nellie Cornwall" she wrote eighteen books for young people - moral, religious tales. Some of them were taken overseas (perhaps by miners). "The Maid of the Storm", published in1900, is now in the National Library of Australia. As "Enys Tregarthen" (the name is a mystery) she wrote about The Little People, all sorts of sprites. There is a biography by Dr. Simon Young and she is in an exhibition in Cornwall Centre. The Cornish language was not dead in her lifetime. You can find some words in her stories, e.g. ugly/cruel. You can read her stories for free in the Gutenberg Project:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37245/37245-h/37245-h.htm













 

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