"Bale Arzur" - "Arthur's March" - Medieval Breton Ballad - Kanaouenn Brezhonek

"Arthur's March" was recorded by the Breton philologist Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué, obtained from Mikel Floc'h, an old mountaineer of Leuc'han. The Middle-Breton verse was said to have been popularly sung as late as the 1790s during the Chouannerie, by Breton peasants as they marched to battle against French Republicans. It was adapted and first published in Barzaz Breiz ("Ballads of Brittany") in 1839, a compilation of folk songs and legends collected by La Villemarqué. Performed by Ar Breizerien, 1974.