§ 1. The Days of the Week, _Dedhyow an Seithan_.
It will be seen that, like the Welsh and Bretons as well as the Latin nations, the Cornish derived the names of the days directly from Latin, and did not, like the Teutonic nations, translate them in accordance with primitive ideas of comparative mythology.
§ 2. The Months of the Year, _Mîsyow an Vledhan_.
§ 3. The Four Seasons of the Year, _Pajer Termen an Vledhan_.
§ 4. Festivals and Holy Days, _Dêdh Goilyow ha Dedhyow Sans_.
Epiphany / Twelfth Day _Degl an Stêl_ / _An Dawdhegvas Dêdh_.
Whitsunday / Pentecost _Zîlgwidn_ / _Pencast_.
Holy Week _Seithan Sans_ / _Seithan Mêr_.
Purification / Candlemas _Degl Marîa an Golow_.
Annunciation / Lady Day _Degl agan Arledhes_ / _Degl Marîa en Mîs Mergh_.
Assumption _Degl Marîa en Hanter-Êst_ / _Ewhelyans Marîa_.
Midsummer Day / Nativity of St. _Golowan_ (i.e. The Lights or John Midsummer Fires) / _Genesegeth Jûan Bejedhyor_.
Lammas Day / Harvest Home _Degoledh ŷs_ (pron. _dêgŭldŷz_ meaning, “Corn Feast”).
All Saints Day _Halan Gwav_ (i.e. the Kalends of Winter).
Michaelmas Day _Degl Sans Myhal hag ŏl an Eleth_.
LIST OF SOME MODERN BOOKS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO CORNISH
1. The Ancient Cornish Drama. Edited and translated by Mr. Edwin Norris. Oxford, University Press, 1859. 2 vols. 8vo. [This contains the Trilogy known as the _Ordinalia_ (see p. 27), followed by notes and a most valuable “Sketch of Cornish Grammar,” and the Cottonian Vocabulary, arranged alphabetically].
2. _Pascon agan Arluth_: the Poem of the Passion (see p. 26). [With a translation and notes by Dr. Whitley Stokes.] _Philological Society’s Transactions_, 1860-1. 8vo.
3. _Gwreans an Bys_: the Creation of the World, a Cornish Mystery. Edited, with a translation and notes, by Whitley Stokes. _Philological Society’s Transactions_, 1864. 8vo.
4. _Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum_: a Dictionary of the ancient Celtic language of Cornwall, in which the words are elucidated by copious examples from the Cornish works now remaining; with translations in English. The synonyms are also given in the cognate dialects of Welsh, Armoric, Irish, Gaelic, and Manx, showing at one view the connection between them. By the Rev. Robert Williams. Roderic, Llandovery, 1865. 4to.