2021 Day 151

 2021 Dedh Cans Üdnek ha Dewgens

De Lün, üdnegves warn ügens mis Me

Monday, 31st May

 

An diwedhes dedh a vis Me? Ew hedna gwir? Na ellama scant y grejy. Degol kebmyn ewa - Degol Kebmyn Gwenton. Hebma ew puppres an diwedhes de Lün en mis Me (a-dhia mil naw cans dewdhek ha trei ügens). En termyn eus passyes thera degol kebmyn rag Pencast. Nag üjy Pencast war an keth jorna en pub bledhen - thew an seythves Sül wòja Pask, an hanter cansves dedh a Bask, pajar ügens dedh ha deg wòja dallath Corawes. E veu gool an eglos Cristyon - genesigeth Cristonedh. An Sperys Sans a skydnyas war an Apostolys avel flabmow, tavosow a dan.   Termyn Pencast o seythen syger e'n Osow Cres rag tiogow - ken dallath oll an whel calish en hav. Termyn, martesen, rag tabm plesour. E veu dew dhegol kebmyn en mis Me. Res ew dhen gòrtos lebmyn rag Degol Kebmyn Hav en mis Est.  

The last day of May? Is that true? I can hardly believe it! It's a bank holiday - the Spring Bank Holiday. This is always the last Monday in May (since 1972). In the past there was a bank holiday for Whitsun (Pentecost). Pentecost is not on the same day every year - it's the seventh Sunday after Easter, the fiftieth day of Easter, ninety days after the start of Lent. It was a Christian church festival - the birth of the Christianity. The Holy Spirit came down on the Apostles as flames, tongues of fire. Whitsuntide was a slack week in the Middle Ages for farmers - before the start of all the hard work in summer. A time, perhaps for a bit of pleasure. There were two bank holidays in May. We have to wait now for the Summer Bank Holiday in August.

 

Deg ger rag hedhyw Ten words for today

an Sperys Sans the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost

apostolys ~ abesteledh apostles

Cristonedh Christianity

degol kebmyn (m) bank holiday

flabmow flames < flamm (m)

genesigeth ~ genejigeth (f) birth

Pencast Pentecost, Whitsun

skydnya ~ deskydnya war to descend upon

syger slack, idle, slow

tavosow tongues < tavas (m)