I just finished transcribing an article about 19th century bards in Brittany, "Modern Ancients." The article mentions the Breton tradition of storytelling and oral history ( alive and well in 1854) as a way to pass information down from generation to generation, but also mentioned that it could be used to relay important health notices, such as how to keep cholera at bay. This was pretty interesting stuff, really.
The article mentions several people and phrases that I am not familiar with, so I thought I'd provide a bit of a vocabluary list:
Finistère - most westerly part of metropolitan France, in Brittany.
Autolycus - renowned for this wiliness and his cleverness as a thief.
Father Mathew - Irish temperance reformer.
Gaberlunzie - a beggar.
I tried to find more information on the "rebbe," a musical instrment mentioned by Dickens, but could find nothing. So unless you have information about this that is unknown in the Googleverse, you will be as in the dark as I am.
The article mentions several people and phrases that I am not familiar with, so I thought I'd provide a bit of a vocabluary list:
Finistère - most westerly part of metropolitan France, in Brittany.
Autolycus - renowned for this wiliness and his cleverness as a thief.
Father Mathew - Irish temperance reformer.
Gaberlunzie - a beggar.
I tried to find more information on the "rebbe," a musical instrment mentioned by Dickens, but could find nothing. So unless you have information about this that is unknown in the Googleverse, you will be as in the dark as I am.
posted by Household Words | Monday, August 07, 2006
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