Name Richard Gendall | Role Poet | |
Books Language of My Forefathers, Practical modern Cornish: Foundations. Part One | ||
Cornish language with richard gendall
Richard Gendall was a British expert on the Cornish language, born in 1924, died September 2017 aged 93 He was the founder of "Modern Cornish"/Curnoack Nowedga, which split off during the 1980s. Whereas Ken George mainly went to Medieval Cornish as the inspiration for his revival, Gendall went to the last surviving records of Cornish, such as John and Nicholas Boson, in the eighteenth-century. He was involved with University of Exeter
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He was a folk musician, and made several recordings with Brenda Wootton, as well as a poet in writer in Cornish itself under the bardic name of "Gelvinak".
Gendall founded Teere ha Tavaz, an organisation which seeks to promote the Cornish language in its Modern Cornish or Curnoack Nowedga variety. It is also a small publisher on, and in, the Cornish language.