Yann ar Floc'h (25 February 1881 – 2 July 1936), pseudonym of Jean Le Page, was a

Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Gale ...

folklorist Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

. He collected the

oral tradition Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.Jan Vansina, Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (19 ...

s of the

Aulne The Aulne (; ) is a long river of Brittany in north-western France, flowing down the hills and emptying into the roadstead of Brest, one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest. The river is part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest, the na ...

region in the department of

Finistère Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.Breton language Breton (, , ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic languages, Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albei ...

. These texts were posthumously published in the collection ''Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon'' ("Folk-tales from the Aulne river country").

Publication

Between 1904 and 1911, he published the various

Breton language Breton (, , ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic languages, Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albei ...

tales which form the collection ''Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon'' ("Folk-tales from the

river country") in periodicals, particularly ' and '. Notably, Yann ar Floc'h collected in 1905 the longest known oral version of the history of

King Mark Mark of Cornwall (, , , ) was a sixth-century King of Kernow (Cornwall), possibly identical with King Conomor. As Mark or Marc (''Marc'h''), he is best known for his appearance in Arthurian legend as the uncle of Tristan and the husband of Ise ...

, a version that is of great interest in the study of this character; it blends the legend of Ys, with the premise that Marc was condemned by Gradlon's daughter (or Dahut). These tales form "the original narration of folk traditions" and are representative of the renewal of popular Breton literature in prose at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1950, the folktales published in the periodicals were gathered together by and published by Le Dault.

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External links

''Koñchennoù eus Bro ar Ster Aon'' at Breton

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{{Authority control 1881 births 1936 deaths Breton-language writers French folklorists People from Finistère Pseudonymous writers