A Breton Carol

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Amy Wilson wrote:
> 
> Greetings, all!
> 
> I have been looking high and low for the lyrics to "A Breton Carol," in Breton
> (or whatever language that is -- Cornish?  Old French?).  I've checked all my
> period carol books, I've checked with music stores (including Byron-Hoyt in
> San Francisco), and no one seems to have them.
> 
> There are recordings of it by Nolwenn Monjarret on the Chieftains "A Celtic
> Wedding" and "Bells of Dublin" with the first line listed as "Peh Trouz 'Zou
> ar en Doar (What Noise on Earth)."
> 
> Can anyone help?  :)
> 
> Catelin the Patient
> "joyful noise"


I would think that your best bet would to write to either Monjarret or the Chieftains to ask the for the 
lyrics. This doesn't necessarily guarantee you an answer, mind.... ;) Unfortunately Breton is outside the scope 
of Peter Kennedy's "Folksongs of Britain and Ireland", otherwise that'd have been my first choice to look in. 
(I did anyway, wasn't a section of Breton songs to be found), or if you look up one of the two CDs by a group 
called Kornog (a Scotsman is the lead singer, otherwise they're all Bretons), you could write to them as well.

Brittany is/was a duchy quickly and strategically annexed by the crown of France by the marriage of the last 
Breton heiress, Anne, to two successive Kings of France. Her daughter, Claude, was the first wife of Francis I, 
arch-rival of Henry VIII.

ciorstan