Fwd: Re: A cornish riddle from 1830

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

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>Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:34:03 +0000
>To: Gareth Bevan <gab at aber.ac.uk>
>From: Andrew Hawke <ach at aber.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: A cornish riddle from 1830
>
>Digwydd y pos yn William Pryce, Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790, sig.
>Ff4r, fel a ganlyn (+ = to bach ar y llythyren flaenorol):
>
>This occurs in William Pryce, Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790, sig.
>Ff4r, as follows (+ here repesents a circumflex accent on the preceding
>character):
>
>A CORNISH RIDDLE.
>
>Flo+ vye gennes en Miz-merh,
>Ni trehes e bigel en miz-east;
>E a roz towl
>Dho Proanter Powle,
>Miz-du ken Nadelik.
>
>A child was born in the month of March,
>We cut his navel in the month of August;
>He gave a fall
>To the Parson of Paul,
>The black month before the Nativity.
>
>--Diwedd y dyfyniad / End of quotation--
>
>Y tebyg yw ei fod yn digwydd yn y 'Gwavas Manuscript' bondigrybwyll,
>casgliad gan William Gwavas (18g.) yn BL Add MS 28554, ond byddai'n rhaid
>imi siecio hynny. Nid yw Pryce yn ateb y pos, ond rwy'n siwr mod i wedi
>gweld cyfeiriad yn rhywle ei fod yn cyfeirio at gwrw neu ryw ddiod
>alcoholaidd arall: ei hau ym mis Mawrth, ei fedi yn Awst, a'i yfed cyn y
>Nadolig. (Paul yw eglwys blwyf Mousehole yn West Penwith, un o gadarnleoedd
>olaf y Gernyweg.)
>
>This is probably from the so-called 'Gwavas Manuscript' a compilation by
>William Gwavas (18th cent.) in BL Add MS 28554, but I would have to check.
>Pryce does not provide the answer to the riddle, but I'm sure that I have
>seen a reference somewhere that it refers to beer or some other alcoholic
>drink: sown in March, harvested in August and drunk before Christmas. (Paul
>is the parish church of Mousehole in West Penwith, one of the last
>strongholds of the language.)
>
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>

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