Yann ar Floc'h
{{Infobox writer
| image = Cover for Koñchennoù eus Bro ar Ster Aon.jpg
| caption = Detail from the cover of Yann ar Floc'h's Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon (1950)
| pseudonym = Yann ar Floc'h
| birth_name = Jean Le Page
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|02|25}}
| birth_place = Pleyben, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|07|02|1881|02|25}}
| death_place = Pleyben, France
| occupation = Folklorist
| language = Breton
| nationality = French
| notable_works = Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon
}}
Yann ar Floc'h (25 February 1881 – 2 July 1936),{{cite book |last=ar Floc'h |first=Yann |year=1950 |title=Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon |url=https://br.wikisource.org/wiki/Pajenn:Ko%C3%B1chenno%C3%B9_eus_Bro_ar_Ster_Aon.djvu/5 |location=Kemper |publisher=Le Dault |language=Breton |pages=7, 9 |access-date=13 November 2020 }} pseudonym of Jean Le Page,{{sfn|Favereau|2001|pp=196–197}} was a Breton folklorist. He collected the oral traditions of the Aulne region in the department of Finistère and published them in Breton periodicals. He was one of the few folklorists of that time to publish this kind of material in the Breton language. These texts were posthumously published in the collection Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon ("Folk-tales from the Aulne river country").{{cite book |last1=Minard |first1=Antone |year=2012 |chapter=Folk-tales and legends, Breton |editor1-last=Koch |editor1-first=John T. |editor1-link=John T. Koch |editor2-last=Minard |editor2-first=Antone |title=The Celts: History, Life, and Culture. Volume 1: A–H |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cHdQC1cXLEC&pg=PA350 |location=Santa Barbara |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=350 |isbn=9781598849646 |access-date=10 November 2020 }}
Publication
Between 1904 and 1911, he published the various Breton language tales which form the collection Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon ("Folk-tales from the Aulne river country") in periodicals,{{sfn|Cormerais|1957|p=520}} particularly {{ill|Kroaz ar Vretoned|lt=Kroaz ar Vretoned|fr}} and {{ill|Ar Vro|lt=Ar Vro|fr}}. Notably, Yann ar Floc'h collected in 1905 the longest known oral version of the history of King Mark,{{cite book |last=Le Scouëzec |first=Gwenc'hlan |author-link=Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec |year=1998 |title=Arthur, Roi Des Bretons D'Armorique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5W1nAAAAMAAJ&q=%22chez+le+dault%22 |location=npp |publisher=Le Manoir du Tertre |page=589 |language=French |isbn=9782913478008 |access-date=10 November 2020 }} a version that is of great interest in the study of this character;{{cite book |last=Carrer |first=Philippe |year=1986 |title=Oedipe en Bretagne: essai d'ethnopsychiatrie |series=Domaines de la psychiatrie, 13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDwqAAAAYAAJ&q=floc%27h |location=Toulouse |publisher=Privat |language=French |page=96 |isbn=9782708978133 |access-date=10 November 2020 }} it blends the legend of Ys, with the premise that Marc was condemned by Gradlon's daughter {{illm|Ahès|fr|preserve=yes}} (or Dahut).{{cite book |last=Milin |first=Gaël |title=Le roi Marc aux oreilles de cheval |location=Genève |publisher=Librairie Droz |language=French |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yAkM6MAGU9cC&pg=PA245 |pages=245–252 |isbn=9782600028868 |access-date=14 November 2020}} These tales form "the original narration of folk traditions"{{sfn|Cormerais|1957|p=520}} and are representative of the renewal of popular Breton literature in prose at the beginning of the 20th century.{{cite book |last1=Abalain |first1=Hervé |year=2000 |title=Histoire de la langue bretonne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJz7qWog5BsC&pg=PA110 |series=Les universels Gisserot, 10 |language=French |location=Paris |publisher=Jean-Paul Gisserot |page=110 |isbn=9782877475235 |access-date=11 November 2020 }} In 1950, the folktales published in the periodicals were gathered together by {{ill|Yeun ar Gow|lt=Yeun ar Gow|fr}} and published by Le Dault.{{sfn|Favereau|2001|p=196}}
Editions
- {{cite book |date=1950 |title=Koñchennoù eus Bro ar Stêr Aon |location=Kemper |publisher=Le Dault }}
- {{cite book |date=2002 |title=Koñchennou euz bro ar ster Aon |location=Kemper |publisher=Emgleo Breiz |isbn=9782913860049 }}
References
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Sources
- {{cite journal |last1=Cormerais |first1=Jean |year=1957 |title=Review of Koñchennou eus Bro ar Ster Aon |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/abpo_0003-391x_1957_num_64_4_2034_t1_0520_0000_2 |journal=Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest |volume=64 |page=520 |language=French |access-date=10 November 2020 }}
- {{cite book |last=Favereau |first=Francis |year=2001 |title=Anthologie de la littérature de langue bretonne au XXe siècle: Partie 1900–1918 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0YpAQAAIAAJ |location=Morlaix |publisher=Skol Vreizh |language=French |isbn=2911447573 |access-date=10 November 2020 }}