Cornish literature

The earliest surviving written Cornish is found in some 10th-century glosses. The late Middle Ages produced some religious writing. Other literature is scanty, consisting mainly of folk tales and verses.

The first connected text is a fragment of 41 lines of verse dating from about 1400. The principal literary texts of the 15th century are a poem Pascon agan Arluth/The Passion of Our Lord of 1,036 lines and Ordinalia, three plays (8,744 lines in all) telling the biblical story from the Creation to the Ascension. There are also two later plays, the Life of St Meriasek and the Creation of the World.