XXII. Story of Ivan. XXII. Story of Ivan. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 225 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--Lluyd, _Archaeologia Britannia_, 1707, the first comparative Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish then still spoken in Cornwall. 2 I have used the English version contained in _Blackwood's Magazine_ as long ago as May 1818. 3 I have taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the original is not suited _virginibus puerisque_, though harmless enough in itself. 4 _Parallels_.--Lover has a tale, _The Three Advices_. 5 It occurs also in modern Cornwall _ap. 6 _ Hunt, _Drolls of West of England_, 344, "The Tinner of Chyamor." 7 Borrow, _Wild Wales_, 41, has a reference which seems to imply that the story had crystallised into a Welsh proverb. 8 Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish Odyssey" ("_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis_"--"Wandering of Ulysses M'Laertes"). 9 It was derived, in all probability, from the _Gesta Romanorum_, c. 103, where two of the three pieces of advice are "Avoid a byeway," "Beware of a house where the housewife is younger than her husband." 10 It is likely enough that this chapter, like others of the _Gesta_, came from the East, for it is found in some versions of "The Forty Viziers," and in the _Turkish Tales_ (see Oesterley's parallels and _Gesta_, ed. 11 Swan and Hooper, note 9). ← previous XXI. Beth Gellert.next → XXIII. Andrew Coffey.↑ back to Celtic Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/