Refference for Blackwood's Edingburgh Magazine

 Blackwood' Edinburgh Magazine 1818

Volume 3

April - September

By William Blackwood, Edinburgh

and 

John Murrey, London

An online version here

Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 7

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

[cont...] "...42 I am here, replied Ivan. In the name of Mary, whom do I hear  said she ; if you are Ivan, come in. Bring you also a light, said Ivan. Then she brought a light.

43 And when Ivan was come in, as I was advancing to the door, said he, I heard some one else in the bed.

44 Oh ! Ivan, replied she, when you determined to go away, I was three months gone with child ; and now we have a beautiful infant in the bed, gracious in the sight of God may he be !

45 Reph'ed Ivan, I will tell thee, my master and my mistress gave me a cake, and told me, when I and my wife should be most joyful together, that we should break the cake and not sooner. And now we have cause to be joyful.

46 Then they broke the cake, and there were nine pounds in the cake; and the money they had, and the bread they eat ; and there never was an idle word nor strife between them afterwards. And so it ends."


Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818 

Maps with help from here - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Celtic_Fairy_Tales/Addenda_and_Corrigenda

Map - Llanlavan / St Levans.
Ty Hwrdh / Chyannor [Unknown]
Map - Wayn Her / St Hilary's Moor. [Saint Hillary?]
Map - Kaer Esk fair (Exeter)
Map - Tre Rhyn / Trereen [Treen?]
Map - Market Jew / Marazion.
Coed Carn y Wylfa / Cûz Carn na huila [Unknown]
Map - Burman / Buryan.

[The place-name corrections in this tale are due to Mr. Phillimore, who points out that Llwyd, in his Welsh translation of the original Cornish, gave the Welsh equivalents of the Cornish place-names.]

Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 6

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

[cont...] "...37 Then they came together out of Market-Joy (Marchnad-Joy Thursday market). And they said, come with us as far as Coed Carrn yr Wylfa (the Wood of the heap of stones of watching), in the parish of Burnian.

38 There two roads separated, and the merchants wished Ivan to go home Ofay with them ; but that tune he would not, but would go home to his wife. 

39 Then when he had separated from the merchants, he foolishly spent his time to try his wife, whether she proved constant to him, whether she did or did not.

40 And when he came to the door, he heard some one else in the bed ; he placed his hand on his dagger to slay them both ; but he recollected that he ought to suffer twice before he struck once.

41 And he came out again, and then he knocked. Who is there, in the name of God ? said she...." [cont...]

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818

Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 5

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

[cont...] "...25 Now, as to the woman of the house, she conspired with a certain monk in the town, to murder the old man in his bed that night, while the rest were asleep, and lay the murder on the merchants.

26 And while Ivan was in bed, there was a hole in the pine-end of the house, and he saw a light, and he rose out of his bed and listened, and heard the monk speaking; and the monk turned his back upon the hole "perhaps," said he, " there is some one in the next house who may see our horrid deeds :" And with that the adultress, with her paramour, put the old man to death.

27 In the meantime, however, Ivan with his knife cut, through the hole, a pretty round piece of the monk's gown

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28 And the next morning the adultress began to cry aloud, because her beloved was murdered ; and as there was neither man nor child in the house except the merchants, they ought to be hanged on his account.

29 Then they were taken and carried to prison, and at last Ivan came to them.

30 Alas, alas! Ivan, said they, a hard fate attends us ; our host was killed last night, and we shall be hanged for him.

31 Aha ! request the justices, said Ivan, to summon those who committed this heinous crime before hem.

32 Who knows, replied they, who committed the crime ? Who committed the crime ! said Ivan. If I know not how to prove who committed the crime, I will suffer myself to be hanged in their stead.

33 Explanation replied they 

(Nos 33, 34, and 35, Ivan repeats what he had seen, and produces the piece of the gown in evidence.)

36 And with that the merchants had their liberty, and the woman and the monk were hanged...." [cont...]

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Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 4

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

[cont...] "...17 And as they were going by the fields of the houses in the meadow, not having gone far from Ivan, robbers fell upon them :

18 And they began to cry out, and With the cry which the merchants made, Ivan also shouted Thieves! thieves !

19 And at the shout which Ivan gave, the robbers left the merchants. And when they came to Market-Joy, there they met again.

20 Oh, Ivan! said they, we are bound to thee, had it not been for thee, we should have been lost men. Come with us, and thou shalt be welcome.

21 And when they were entering the house where they were accustomed to lodge, I must, said Ivan, see the man of the house.

22 The host ! replied they ; what dost thou want with the host ? here we have the hostess, and she is young. If thou must see the host, go to the kitchen, and thou shalt see him.

23 And when he came to the kitchen, he saw the host, and he was an old man, and weak, and turning the spit.

24 Oh ! quoth Ivan, here I will not lodge, but in the next house. Not yet, replied they ; sup with us, and thou shalt be welcome...." [cont...]

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818

Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 3

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

[cont...] "...13 Fair leave he took and towards home (" Tref," i.e. town) he travelled, and at last he came to Wayn-Iler, and there he met three merchants from Tre Rhyn, persons of his own parish, coming home from

14 Kaer Esk fair (Exeter). Oho! Ivan, said they, come with us, joyful are we to see you. Where have you been so long ?

15 I have been, said Ivan, in service, and now I am going home to my wife. Oh ! said they, come with us, and thou shalt be welcome.

16 And they took the new road, and Ivan kept the old.
 ..." [cont...]

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818

Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 2

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

[cont...] "...5 And when the end of the year came, his master shewed him the three pounds. Look Ivan, said his master : here are thy wages. But if thou wilt give them me again, I will teach thee a point of doctrine.

6 Give them to me, said Ivan. No, I will not, replied his master, I will explain it to thee. Keep you them, said Ivan. Then, said his master," Take care not to leave the old road, for the sake of a new road."

7 Then they agreed for another year for the same wages : and when the end of the year was come (the same conversation takes place as in Nos. 5 and 6, till the master delivers his second aphorism, which " is), Take care not to lodge where a young woman is married to an old man."

9 10 (The same conversation, &c. takes place for the third year, and the master delivers his third aphorism), " Suffer thyself to be struck twice before thou strikest once, for that is the most prudent quality of all."

11 Then Ivan would not serve any longer, but he would go home to his wife. Not to-day, replied his master ; my wife bakes to-morrow, and she shall make thee a cake to take home to thy wife.

12 And they put the nine pounds in the cake. And when Ivan was about to take his leave, Here, said his master, is a cake for thee to take home to thy wife; and when thou and thy wife are most joyous together, then break the cake and not sooner..." [cont...]

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818

Early translation into English from Kernowec (Cornish) of The Tale Of Ivan - part 1

St Levan Church (Llanlavan is probably Saint Levan - My poor knowledge of Cwmraeg (Welsh) would suggest so anyway, Llan in Welsh being roughly equivalent to a parish area) - image © Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

THE TALE OF IVAN.
( Translated from the Cornish.)

MR EDITOR, I HAVE sent you the following translation of one of the "Inabinogi," or tales for the instruction of youth, which is chiefly curious, as it is the only tale that I am aware of which is in existence in foe Cornish language; at the same time, it may not be disagreeable to some of your readers, to see how the ancients of the times gone by conveyed their lessons of instruction to the young. It is to be found in the 251, 252, pp. of Llwyd's Archaeologia Britannica, with a Welsh translation annexed. 

Yours, PWY. 

Jesus College, Oxford, 23d April 1818.

1 There were formerly a man and woman living in the parish of Llanlavan, in the place which is called Ty Hwrdh.

2 And (the) work became scarce and therefore said the man to his wife, I will go and search for work, and you may live here.

3 He took fair leave, and travelled far towards the East ; and at last he came to the house of a husbandman (Villanus), and asked there for work to perform.

4 What work canst thou perform ? said the husbandman. I can perform every kind of work, said Ivan, Then they agreed for three pounds as the hire of a year..." [cont...]

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818