Jowan Chyan 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 mediev~1 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 (l860-l862) 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 inGwalarn no 20. The Celtic scholar
Professor Ludwig Muelhausen published a study of the tale in Die
Kornishe Geshichte von der drei guten ratschwiigen.
