Title

The Legend of the Sunken City in Welsh and Breton Tradition

Author(s)

James E. Doan, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Department

Department of Literature and Modern Languages

Publication Date

1981

Publication Title

Folklore

ISSN

1890-2015

Volume

92

Issue/No.

1

First Page

77

Last Page

83

Abstract

Excerpt

Among the earliest collections of Breton folktales and folksongs in the nineteenth century were the two works know as Le Foyer Breton ('The Breton Hearth') published by Emile Souvestre in 1844, and Barzaz-Breiz ('Songs of Brittany'), edited and translated by Hersart de la Villemarqué in 1839. With a revised edition appearing in 1845. Emile Souvestre came from a middle-class Breton-speaking family of Morlaix, a city in northern Brittany (Finistère). This area remained rich in folklore in his day, a factor which led him to devote his life to the study of Breton traditions. Villemarqué on the other hand came from a minor aristocratic family in which the Breton language was often spoken. In 1837 at the age of twenty-two, he began his study of the traditional Breton songs, and five years later he also turned his attentions to medieval Welsh and Breton romances.

NSUWorks Citation

Doan, J. E. (1981). The Legend of the Sunken City in Welsh and Breton Tradition. Folklore, 92 (1), 77-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.1981.9716187

ORCID ID

0000-0002-4966-1251

DOI

10.1080/0015587X.1981.9716187