Kernow bys Vykken - Mick Paynter & The Moontones
Channel: skogynnpryv1
Date: 23/01/2012

A translation into Kernewek of the following poem by Bob Devereux:

This was a Lazarus language, raised from sleep,
Discovered in a faded manuscript,
Recovered from an archive buried deep.
With craft and scholarship they salvaged it.

Some things were added of necessity.
The scoured a landscape for its wealth of names.
Found words in other texts, searched memory.
Their lexicon has grown. They can declaim.

Linguists breathed life into this wounded bird.
Now it can ride the thermals and be free.
They gave it voice and now that voice is heard.
It is a bastion of identity.

They took a language which had ceased to speak and 
Nursed it back to health. Kernow Bys Vykken.