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THE FIFTEEN BESANTS OF CORNWALL
I would like to thank Tim Saunders (fellow poet and bryntynn Cornish speaker) for putting me in the way of the Englyn (plural: Englynyon), an ancient Celtic verse form. This form of poetry, which I might liken to a Celtic haiku, has been widely represented in the Welsh language, but as Cornish scholars would inform you, the virtual destruction of the Cornish language through the Dissolution of the Monasteries meant that little remained of written Cornish for us to discover Cornish versions.
