The annual procession of bards and installation of the 16 new initiates took place on Saturday, September 1, at the ceremony on the Barrowcliff in Newquay as part of the Esedhvos Festival of Cornish culture.
Gorsedh Kernow exists to maintain the national celtic spirit of Cornwall and to give expression to such spirit, to encourage the study of Cornish history and literature, the Cornish language, to foster Cornish art, music, dance and sport and to link with other Celtic countries.
The procession was led by the Grand Bard of Cornwall Merv Davey.
During the ceremony Jane Nancarrow, of St Stephens, Launceston, was installed as a bard for her services to Cornish literature.
A pupil and disciple of Charles Causley who works hard for the Charles Causley Festival and is one of the finest readers of Causley’s poetry.
She is also well remembered for her performance as Mary Yellan in ‘Jamaica Inn’ and had a leading role in Edward Woodward’s last film ‘A Congregation of Ghosts’. Her bardic name is Skrifores Nans Karow meaning ‘Writer of the Valley of the Deer’.
