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Jowan Chy an Hor

John of Chyanhor. The only folktale surviving in the Cornish language; originally set down by Nicholas Boson of Newlyn in the seventeenth century. For some time it was thought to have been a composition by his son John Boson. Considered to be a medieval tale, Jowan Chy an Hor is similar to a tale recorded from oral transmission in Popular Tales of the West Highlands by John F. Campbell (1860–1862) and reprinted as Na Tri Chomhairlean (The Three Counsels) in More Tales of the West Highlands in 1940. There is also a Breton version of the tale published by Roparz Hermon in Gwalarn no 20. The Celtic scholar Professor Ludwig Muelhausen published a study of the tale in Die Kornishe Geshichte von der drei guten ratschwägen.