Re: Hey Celtophiles -- book for sale

Thomas Leigh scripsit:

> I have just returned home from the Pennseythun Kernewek in Cornwall,
This sent me on a journey which wound up at the on-line errata to
Nicholas Williams's _English-Cornish Dictionary_ at
http://www.evertype.com/gram/ecd-errata-addenda-4-reg.pdf .
I never realized to what extent Padraic's Kerno orthography is a
parody of Unified Cornish!  Cool stuff therefrom:

Bryf, bryf, te dhavas dhu
ues genes gwlan?
Ues, syrra, lenwys yw
try sagh a'm ran
Onen ues dhe'm mester los
un aral ues dhe'm dama
saw nyns ues man dhe'n meppyk plos
y'n vownder ues ow carma!

Dew saw an Vyternes
bewnans hyr ha yehes
dhe'n Vyternes!
Dhedhy Dew roy pur splan
prest yn lowender glan
pel dhe rewlya warnan
yn Myternes!

Dorn ues dh'y drestya, cledha da!
Lel hudhyk an golon!
Tus Mytern Jamys aswon a wra
Gallus an Gernowyon
Yw ordnys le ha prys dhodho?
A verow Trelawny bras?
Otomma ugans myl Kernow
a woffyth oll an cas!

Padraic, how about some translations into Kernu?

--
John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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