Cornish culture

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 115. Chapters: King Arthur, Saint Piran, Newlyn School, Bard, Oggy Oggy Oggy, Bardic name, Red-billed Chough, Culture of Cornwall, Wycliffe, Jack the Giant Killer, Cornish hurling, Charles Thomas, Pixie, Doc Martin, Golowan Festival, Pan-Celticism, Cornish cuisine, The Bolitho novels, Bewnans Ke, Sport in Cornwall, Cornish folklore, The Poldark Novels, Stannary Courts and Parliaments, Philip Payton, Cornish literature, Hundreds of Cornwall, Gorsedh Kernow, 'Obby 'Oss festival, List of Cornish dialect words, Cornish festivals, Kneehigh Theatre, The Song of the Western Men, Cornish dance, Dalla, Cornwall film locations, Bernard Deacon, Glasney College, Carey Morris, Guise dancing, The Richleighs of Tantamount, Montol Festival, Furry Dance, Cornish symbols, Institute of Cornish Studies, Mummer's Day, Cruel Coppinger, Kernewek Lowender, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, Brenda Wootton, Englyn, Garry Tregidga, Cornish kilts and tartans, The Merry Maidens, Tom Bawcock, St Piran's Day, The Red Army, Caer Bran, Rillaton Barrow, Mick Paynter, John Angarrack, Royal Cornwall Museum, Oliver Padel, West Cornwall May Day celebrations, Knocker, Nickanan Night, Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek, Cornish Language Partnership, Nine Maidens stone row, Allantide, Troyl, South West Film Studios, Delkiow Sivy, Tom Bawcock's Eve, Tate St Ives, Emmet, Penlee House, Black and Gold, Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, Kescusulyans Kernow, Spriggan, An Awhesyth, List of St Ives artists, Guldize, Royal Cornwall Show, Bro Goth agan Tasow, Royal Institution of Cornwall, James Whetter, Myrna Combellack, Wildworks, St Ives School, Cornwall Record Office, Ralph Dunstan, Picrous Day, Bolster Day, Beunans Meriasek, Julyan Holmes, Faust Lang, The White Rose, Noze looan, Crying The Neck, Spingo, Cornwall Film Festival, Newlyn Art Gallery, Tony Snell, Plen an Gwarry, Hail to the Homeland, Mock Mayor, Footsbarn Theatre, Penwith Society of Arts, Chewidden Thursday, Port Eliot Festival, Serpent dance, Bodmin Riding, Morrab Library, Cornish World, Dehwelans Kernow, Cumpas Ltd, Delyow Derow, Kiddlywink, Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyaeth Kernow, Wayside Folk Museum, Teegan. Excerpt: King Arthur was a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Romano-Celtic Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians. The sparse historical background of Arthur is gleaned from various sources, including the Annales Cambriae, the Historia Brittonum, and the writings of Gildas. Arthur's name also occurs in early poetic sources such as Y Gododdin. The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain). Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn. How much of Geoffrey's Historia (completed in 1138) was adapted from such earlier sources, rather than invented...