Was Arthur once a Raven? The legend of 'Arthur as a Chough'

Ramsay, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6001-9916 2012. Was Arthur once a Raven? The legend of 'Arthur as a Chough'. Old Cornwall 14 (7) , pp. 19-27.

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Abstract

This paper examines the earliest attestations of the (now uniquely Cornish) folklore that Arthur turned into a chough. These include particularly Hawker's 1840 poem "The Wreck' and the appearance in Don Quixote. It is suggested that the original folklore was re-delimitated to the chough and originally attributed to the raven, and this idea has some limited folkloric and historic resonance. Finally it is argued that the folklore is a survival from the medieval period when the idea that Arthur would return had a widespread currency across Britain.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy Schools > Welsh
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GR Folklore G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages > PB1001 Celtic languages and literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Uncontrolled Keywords:	raven, chough, cornwall, cornish, don quixote, robert stephen hawker, folklore
Publisher:	Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
ISSN:	0472-8653
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/75702

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