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The word "Corgi" is either from the Welsh "cor" (dwarf) and "ci" (dog). The "ci" becoming "gi" by normal mutation resulting in corgi. Another interpretation is that of "cur dog" or "Cur". This interpretation can be dated back to one of the earliest dictionaries, to Wyllam Salesbury's "A Dictionary in Englyshe and Weslhe" London, 1574, where there is a reference to the "Korgi ne gostoc", that is, Corgi or curre dogge. (The use of the K rather than the C at that time was perfectly proper and eventually the K was no longer used interchangeably with the C.) The connection of the word "Corgi" with "Cur" has considerable historical support as there are many references to Corgwn (plural of Corgi - pronounced Corg'n, sound out like oxen) in many a cywydd (a song of praise) in the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Among the pieces of literature produced in what is now Great Britain around the Black Death era and until the end of the fourteenth century are
The Auchinleck Manuscript,
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,
The Canterbury Tales,
Piers Plowman,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Sir Launfal,
The Brus...
As for poetry, the 14th century has seen the emergence of the cywydd in Welsh poetry. This meter (seven syllables per line and an alternation of stressed/unstressed syllables at the end of each line) was extremely successful in the following centuries and is still used in this day and age.
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