The Haunting of the Snarkasbord

The Haunting of the Snarkasbord
Author: Alison Tannenbaum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781904808985

This is a collection of parodies inspired by Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'.

Kepar ha Cyta Encledhys: Like a Buried City

Kepar ha Cyta Encledhys: Like a Buried City
Author: Matthi Ab Dewi
Publisher: Evertype
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781782012979

Nyns yw Kernow haval dhe gen tir vÿth rag yma hy cyvylta coth Keltek owth assaya dhe wetha y honen warbydn assaultyans an kensa cansvledhen warn ugans. Yth yw teylu Pengilley gwir-esely a'n bêwnans arnowyth-na ha scant nyns usons y ow powes dhe bredery adro dh'aga gwredhyow aga honen-erna wrella Sîra Wydn merwel ha gasa dhodhans cofyr hag ino paperyow podnek ha pot coth. Yma an kemyn-na ow sordya viaj dhe dhyscudha termyn passys coynt an teylu hag orth aga helmy dres an spâss a voy ès dew cans bledhen gans Jacka, Mary ha'ga thry flogh, anedhys in pendra vunys wàr gòst gwyls an West a Gernow. Res o dhe Deylu Pengilley in dyweth an êtegves cansvledhen strîvya gans bohosogneth, gans peryllys an bal sten ha gans cowl-dys-wrians a'ga bêwnans ûsys dre davas nowyth esa ow kemeres posessyon a'ga fluw-an Sowsnek. Yma Jacka ow tôwlel towl rag selwel y vêny ha'y ertach cùlturek saw yth ywa chalynjys gans taclow usy ow terry y holon hag orth y ladha ogasty. A yll y dhieskynysy styrya an desmyk gesys ganso i'n tavas Kernowek?-rag warbydn an kensa cansvledhen warn ugans yth esa an tavas-na in dadn gel-kepar ha cyta encledhys? --- Cornwall is a land like no other where a Celtic culture struggles to hold its own against the onslaught of the twenty-first century. The Pengilleys are very much part of that modern life and hardly stop to consider their own roots-until Grandad dies and leaves a chest of dusty papers and an old pot. The ensuing journey to uncover this strange past soon finds the family tied across more than two hundred years to Jacka, Mary and their three children living in a tiny village on the rugged coast of West Cornwall. The Pengilleys of the late eighteenth century battled poverty, dangerous mines and the eradication of their whole way of life by a new language taking hold in their parish-English. Jacka sets about a plan to save his family and cultural heritage but faces challenges which break his heart and nearly cost him his own life. Can his descendants decode the puzzle he left in the Cornish language which, by the twenty-first century, lay beneath the surface-like a hidden city?

Like a Buried City: Kepar Ha Cyta Encledhys

Like a Buried City: Kepar Ha Cyta Encledhys
Author: Matthi Ab Dewi
Publisher: Evertype
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781782012962

Cornwall is a land like no other where a Celtic culture struggles to hold its own against the onslaught of the twenty-first century. The Pengilleys are very much part of that modern life and hardly stop to consider their own roots-until Grandad dies and leaves a chest of dusty papers and an old pot. The ensuing journey to uncover this strange past soon finds the family tied across more than two hundred years to Jacka, Mary, and their three children, living in a tiny village on the rugged coast of West Cornwall. The Pengilleys of the late eighteenth century battled poverty, dangerous mines, and the eradication of their whole way of life by a new language taking hold in their parish-English. Jacka sets about a plan to save his family and cultural heritage but faces challenges which break his heart and nearly cost him his own life. Can his descendants decode the puzzle he left in the Cornish language which, by the twenty-first century, lay beneath the surface-like a hidden city?

Snarkmaster

Snarkmaster
Author: Byron W. Sewell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781782010029

Although the author (with many previous unique Snarkian works under his belt) describes "Snarkmaster" as the final work in a trilogy, it stands alone quite distinctly as a unique, gripping tale of a power struggle between good and evil, concluding with the development of an unusual intermediate state. Most of the story takes place prior to the traditional Snark voyage (described in verse in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"), but becomes inextricably linked with it-unless it isn't... The literary structure of "Snarkmaster" reveals some influence of Carroll's "Sylvie and Bruno" tales, as the characters (including the great Charles Dodgson himself) experience dream states and the appearance of at least one fairy. The comprehensive glossary and painstakingly hand-detailed maps of each of the islands in the archipelago may not be essential to follow the story, but they certainly enhance it. The meticulously hand-inked illustrations emphasize some of the important aspects of the story and provide a tropical ambiance for the text. While not necessarily a prerequisite, knowledge of Carroll's original poem is likely to make Snarkmaster more enjoyable for most readers.

Geryow Gwir

Geryow Gwir
Author: Nicholas Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781782010685

If one compares the vocabulary laid out in the handbooks of revived Cornish with the lexicon of the traditional texts, one is struck by how different are the two. From the beginnings Unified Cornish in the 1920s it appears that revivalists have tended to avoid words borrowed from English, replacing them with more "Celtic' etyma." Indeed the more Celtic appearance the vocabulary of both Welsh and Breton seens to have been a source of envy to some Cornish revivalists. From Nance onwards such purists have believed that English borrowings disfigured Cornish and in some sense did not belong in the language. They considered that revived Cornish would be more authentic, if as many borrowings as possible were replaced by native or Celtic words. Such a perception is perhaps understandable in the context of the Cornish language as a badge of ethnic identity. From a historical and linguistic perspective, however, it is misplaced. Cornish, unlike its sister languages, has always adopted words from English. Indeed it is these English borrowings which give the mature language of the Middle Cornish period its distinctive flavour. Cornish without the English element is quite simply not Cornish. Since there is no sizeable community speaking revived Cornish as a native language, we are compelled to rely on the only native speakers available to us, namely the writers of the traditional texts. We must follow them as closely as we can. It is to be hoped that this book will in some small measure assist learners of Cornish to speak and to write a form of the language more closely related to what remains to us of the traditional language.