{"id":1118,"date":"2008-07-19T21:46:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T01:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2018-08-13T03:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T07:10:20","slug":"thursday-june-19-2008-omlowen-dha-bos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, June 19, 2008 \u2014 Omlowen dha&nbsp;bos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While I\u2019ve been silenced by the demands of work, my friend Steve Muhlberg\u00ader has become more vol\u00adu\u00adble, with longer and more detailed blog entries, inspired by his Euro\u00adpean trav\u00adels. These can be read at Muhlberg\u00ader\u2019s Ear\u00adly His\u00adto\u00adry. Among them are items on Latvia, Medieval robots, the enchant\u00adi\u00adng Cor\u00adnish land\u00adscape, the truth about the Cor\u00adnish pastie, and a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly fine one on the lega\u00adcy of Cor\u00adnish tin mines.&nbsp;The dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of the dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive pride of the min\u00aders remind\u00aded me of a medieval min\u00ading town of Kut\u00adn\u00e1 Hora I vis\u00adit\u00aded in Czech Repub\u00adlic. There, the goth\u00adic Church of St. Bar\u00adbara (Chr\u00e1m svat\u00e9 Bar\u00adbo\u00adry) is dec\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded with won\u00adder\u00adful fres\u00adcoes that depict the dai\u00adly life and work of min\u00aders and minters. The min\u00aders had con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable polit\u00adi\u00adcal and social pow\u00ader and inde\u00adpen\u00addence, and expressed it in this extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary&nbsp;art.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Corn\u00adwal\u00adl\u2019s inde\u00adpen\u00addent spir\u00adit dur\u00ading the mid\u00addle ages was also expressed artis\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly, in the form of a unique dra\u00admat\u00adic lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, some of which sur\u00advives.&nbsp;The Cor\u00adnish-lan\u00adguage plays were per\u00adformed in cir\u00adcu\u00adlar open-air amp\u00adithe\u00adatres, called Plen-an-gwary, earth\u00aden embank\u00adments sur\u00adround\u00ading a green.&nbsp;There were hun\u00addreds of them, but only two sur\u00advive. One, at St. Just, has mutat\u00aded into a vil\u00adlage com\u00admon, but the one at St.Piran (not sign\u00adpost\u00aded, but it is 1.2km along the <span class=\"caps\">B3285<\/span> from Goon\u00adhav\u00adern, towards Per\u00adran\u00adporth, on the north side of the road, just off a small lane oppo\u00adsite a pink house) is in its orig\u00adi\u00adnal form, after local ini\u00adtia\u00adtive cleared away the over\u00adgrowth of brush.&nbsp;The Bew\u00adnans Meri\u00adasek, a dra\u00adma of the life of a Cor\u00adnish saint, has been suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly per\u00adformed there, as well as bardic fes\u00adti\u00advals. Anoth\u00ader Cor\u00adnish clas\u00adsic, the Ordi\u00adna\u00adlia, has been per\u00adformed at St. Just. Steve did\u00adn\u2019t stum\u00adble on these, but he writes with del\u00adi\u00adcate feel\u00ading about many oth\u00ader sights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One aspect of Cor\u00adnish his\u00adto\u00adry that is large\u00adly for\u00adgot\u00adten is the fact that it suf\u00adfered heav\u00adi\u00adly from slave raids in the sev\u00aden\u00adteenth and eigh\u00adteenth cen\u00adturies.&nbsp;This is described in Giles Mil\u00adton\u2019s White Gold, reviewed on my read\u00ading&nbsp;page.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I\u2019ve been silenced by the demands of work, my friend Steve Muhlberg\u00ader has become more vol\u00adu\u00adble, with longer and more detailed blog entries, inspired by his Euro\u00adpean trav\u00adels. These can be read at Muhlberg\u00ader\u2019s Ear\u00adly His\u00adto\u00adry. Among them&nbsp;are&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1118\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}