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Breton literature can be categorised into an Old Breton period, from the 5th to 11th century; and a Middle Breton period, up to the 17th century. The period break is marked by the Norman invasions of the 10th and 11th centuries which triggered an exodus out of Brittany. Many Old Breton extant words are glosses in Latin manuscripts from the 9th ...
Breton literature, the body of writings in the Breton language of northwestern France.. Medieval poetry and drama. No literary texts in Old Breton have survived. An 11th-century poem translated from Breton into Latin demonstrates a strong similarity with Old Welsh epic poetry; attributed to a monk, Ingomar, it was written in honour of the Breton king Judikael.
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Breton literature. Breton literature (brĕt´ən), in the Celtic language of Brittany. Although there are numerous allusions in other literatures of the 12th to 14th cent. to the "matter of Brittany," which includes the stories of Tristan and King Arthur, no Breton texts remain from this period. The earliest ones date from the 15th cent.
The revival of Breton literature. Interest in Breton, which revived at a time when France’s central government was trying to impose French on Brittany and destroy the regional language, was particularly stimulated with the publication of the celebrated Barzaz Breiz (originally Barzas-Breiz, 1839; “Breton Bardic Poems”).
Literary output from 1920 to 2020 can therefore be analysed in light of the rapid sociolinguistic evolution of Brittany. Indeed, as in other cases, literature in the Breton language has never been detached from its historical, polit-ical, and social context. However, in view of its status, the forces acting on it have not been the same as those ...
Nov 2, 2023 · I got hold of The Turn of the Ermine: An Anthology of Breton Literature, selected and translated by Jacqueline Gibson and Gwyn Griffiths and published by Francis Boutle in 2006. Boutle is a terrific publisher, making splendid books, devoted to minority language literatures –Breton, Occitan, Galician, Faroese, Latvian and Latgalian, Scottish ...
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Breton literature - Gwalarn, Celtic, Revival: World War I marked the arrival of another new era for Breton literature, not least because of the significant number of Breton speakers killed during the war. Writers shifted away from old Breton models and showed a new openness to the influence of other literatures. This movement began in the mid-1920s with the creation of the periodical Gwalarn ...
