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carval Isle of Man.|ˈkɑːvəl|
Also carvel.
[Manx carval.]
A carol, a ballad on a sacred subject.
1873W. Harrison in Mona Miscellany 2nd Ser. p. x, A specimen of a Manx carval is given... It would have been easy to have given many of these carvals, which may be termed a literature entirely peculiar to the Manx people, consisting chiefly of ballads on sacred subjects which have been handed down in writing... Most of these carvals are from 50 to 150 years old, and amongst the favourites may be mentioned ‘Joseph's History’, ‘Susannah's History’, ‘The Nativity’, ‘The Holy War’, ‘David and Goliath’, ‘Samson's History’, ‘Birth of Christ’. 1887Hall Caine Deemster III. xxxiii. 60 Sometimes he crooned a Manx carval. 1910Encycl. Brit. V. 639/2 Most of the existing literature..consists of ballads and carols, locally called carvels. 1956Archivum Linguisticum VIII. i. 88 The carval manuscripts with their ryhmes and abundant non-literary spellings. |