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À propos du Stabat Mater breton de Tanguy Guéguen (1622) : le « moyen-breton » existe-t-il ? [PDF]

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2009
Like Middle High German and Middle French, Middle Breton is supposed to cover an intermediate period between the oldest state of the language, Old Breton, and its most recent state, Modern Breton.
Yves Le Berre
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What makes Breton lays ‘Breton’? Bretons, Britons and Celtic ‘otherness’ in medieval romance

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2014
An exploration of the semantic and cultural fields behind the term ‘Breton’ suggests that the modern word ‘Celtic’ corresponds better to what is implied by the expression ‘Breton lay’.
Leo Carruthers
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L’écriture du breton dans l’histoire. Essai de synthèse [PDF]

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 1991
The history of Breton writing extends over six and a half centuries, from the few sentences dating from the middle of the fourteenth century and constituting what is known as "Ivonet Omnès Breton" to the present day.
Yves Le Berre
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Dialectes et moyen-breton [PDF]

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 1985
We have always said and affirmed that Breton is, in the middle of the twentieth century, a medieval language because of its two fundamental features, tangible in all everyday situations: 1.
Christian-J. Guyonvarc’h
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Loyalty and Treason in Some Middle English Breton Lays

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2014
Middle English Breton lays often depict a feudal world that rests on mutual trust and fealty between a lord and his vassals, and in which love relations are conceived in terms of a covenant that binds the knight to his beloved, whether mortal or fairy ...
Agnès Blandeau
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Representations of the Self in the Middle English Breton Lays

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2014
Starting from the fact that in the time gap between the oldest and the newest of the Breton lays the literary character as such can be seen to emerge, this article goes further to remark that women are the roundest characters.
Joanny Moulin
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Middle Welsh, Cornish and Breton Personal Pronominal Forms

open access: yesEtudes Celtique, 1959
Hamp Eric P. Middle Welsh, Cornish and Breton personal pronominal forms. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 8, fascicule 2, 1959. pp. 394-401.
Eric P Hamp
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Graftings, Reweavings and Interpretation: The Auchinleck Middle English Breton Lays in Manuscript and Edition

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2014
This essay argues that the material textual context provides a framework for reading the Middle English Breton Lays in the Auchinleck MS and in contemporary editions.
Anne Laskaya
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Old Welsh, Middle Welsh and Middle Breton Rac, Middle Cornish Rag

open access: yesEtudes Celtique, 1952
Williams J. E. Caerwyn. Old Welsh, middle Welsh and middle Breton rac, middle Cornish rag. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 6, fascicule 1, 1952. pp. 11-20.
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Middle Welsh dihynnyon ‘fragments, bits of meat’ and Breton dienn, Cornish dehen ‘cream’ [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Celtica Fennica
This paper argues for an interpretation of Middle Welsh dihynnion as ‘skimmings’, i.e. ‘scum and fat skimmed from the cooking-pot’, rather than the traditional ‘fragments, bits of meat’. With this interpretation, Middle Welsh dihynnion can be connected to the otherwise etymologically isolated Breton dienn and Cornish dehen ‘cream’.
Jörgensen, Anders, Jörgensen, Anders,
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