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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 1 : Scottish and English Songs
Folder 19 : Scottish and English Songs - G

Page 00763 : Carol Kelinen Sans Day [song text] Old Cornwall Magazine (April 1926) W. D. Watson (contributor)

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Carol Kelinen Sans Day

Contributor	W. D. Watson
Index Name	Watson, W. D.

Source Document

Old Cornwall Magazine ( April 1926 ) Bibliography

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00763

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - carol - Cornish song

First line

Ma gron war'n Gelinen, 'ga lyu y lethwyn

'Traylyes Dho'n Kernuak Gans [translated from the Cornish by] W. D. Watson.'

Cornish language carol (status of alternative title uncertain).

5 stanzas; 6 lines notes

Contextual Notes

From translation by W. D. Watson, who learned from Thomas Beard, St Day, about 1920, now published in magazine. Mr Watson's address is Morrab Gardens, Penzance.

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