<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I think it was about 1993 as the result of issues over the spelling of Bardic names that a decision was taken to permit them to be in KK, however I think I am correct in saying whatever the spelling was on entry into the Gorseth, it cannot be officially changed within the organisation afterwards. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Pat<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Generally, new bards can determine their own bardic names, as long as it <BR>doesn't coincide with someone else's. That's why I could never <BR>understand why the Gorsedd would not accept my first choice of "Menhyr" <BR>(they reckoned that it couldn't be accepted as a past Bard had been <BR>"Menhyryon").<BR><BR>Morton Nance's Unified Cornish was, and still is, the official language <BR>of the Gorsedd and so, all Bardic names have to be in that particular <BR>orthography.<BR><BR>Craig<BR><BR><BR>Harry Fraiser wrote:<BR>> How are these Bardic titles determined? Do their spellings undergo<BR>> variation pari passu with orthographical reform?<BR>><BR>> Harry<BR>><BR>> On 7/20/08, Craig Weatherhill <<A href="mailto:weatherhill@freenet.co.uk" ymailto="mailto:weatherhill@freenet.co.uk">weatherhill@freenet.co.uk</A>> wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> Oh,
now this IS interesting, Pat. Neither Nicholas nor I appear in the<BR>>> Bardic roll. Yes, we both resigned our bardship, and the list could say<BR>>> so. However, what the Gorsedd appears to be doing is to write our<BR>>> bardship out of history. The facts remain that I was installed as a<BR>>> Bard in 1981 for services to archaeology, and Nicholas rather earlier<BR>>> than that for services to the language. Those facts cannot be discarded<BR>>> simply by omission.<BR>>><BR>>> However, if you then look at the list of Bardic Names, Delynyer<BR>>> Hendhyscans is there, followed by the words "resigned" and Weatherhill.<BR>>><BR>>> Someone at the Gorsedd is being disingenuous, I feel.<BR>>><BR>>> Craig<BR>>><BR>>> Golvan, too is there, correctly identified (by surname only) as Williams<BR>>> - but no mention of
resignation.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> Pat wrote:<BR>>> <BR>>>> <A href="http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bardic_roll.pdf" target=_blank>http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bardic_roll.pdf</A><BR>>>><BR>>>> <A href="http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bardic_names.pdf" target=_blank>http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bardic_names.pdf</A><BR>>>><BR>>>> This is the link to this years which were announced last week.<BR>>>> <A href="http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bard2008.htm" target=_blank>http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bard2008.htm</A><BR>>>><BR>>>> <BR>>>>> My apologies for going off topic Michael, but we have recently put 2<BR>>>>> new lists of Bards on
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