Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
This song was written around the 70s, when the ARB or Breton Liberation Army operated around the region of Brittany, which obviously desired to create a free Breton state for the historically marginalized Breton people in northwestern France.
The song was written by Émile Le Scanf , or better known as Glenmor (a combination of sea and land in Breton). A well-travelled man in the 50s, he began to write and preform music in 1959 back in France. Over time he would assert his Breton identity into his music (often politically) as well as his appearance, growing out his hair and beard to look like the style of a Breton peasant. Glenmor began to engage more in nationalist activity and Breton activism, and in the midst of it he wrote le Kan bale lu poblek and later renamed to Kan bale an ARB, which would be adopted by the Breton Paramilitary group. As someone who has done so much to preserve the language and culture of Brittany; when he passed away in 1996 his funeral was attended by several thousand of his followers and friends he knew within the movement and they erected a statue into his tomb, in his hometown of Mael-Carhaix. In his tomb is inscribed "Émile LE SCANV (1931-1996) Et voici bien ma terre, la vallée de mes amours. Glenmor"
On a personal note, Glenmor is the reason why I made this video as over time I came to admire his deeds and duties to a language many began to regard as a dying culture, and certainly made me interested in learning Breton, despite always supporting the Breton identity for a long time. Like any other cultural movement (like Brittany and Corsica), I've always supported them but never fully understood why. It was the realization that it was because just like them in a way, I am trying to preserve my own culture, as it is disappearing within my community and it makes me who I am and where I came from, my ancestors and my nation's history, to which it's what I take pride in.
Poent eo stagañ, Bretoned
Gant stourm meur ar vro
Poent eo skubañ an oaled
Kempenn an ero
Un deiz e vo sklaer an amzer
War henchoù don ar brezel kuzh
Un deiz e vo lorc'hus ha taer
Distro Arzhur war e marc'h ruz
[Verse 2]
Dinec'h ha krenn, Bretoned
'vo tenn ar stourmer
En noz 'tarzho kastellioù
Gweleoù ar gwasker
Na kriz e vo heol an argad
D'ar vourc'hizien ha d'an treitour
Na kaer e vo luc'h an tantad
Da galon Breizh d'he argadour
En noz 'tarzho kastellioù
Gwelеoù ar gwasker
Dinec'h ha krenn, Brеtoned
'vo tenn ar stourmer
[Verse 3]
Ret 'vo dastum, Bretoned
Toc'had ar brezel
Eost du ar re 'vo daonet
Eo trec'h Breizh-Izel
Bugaligoù ha tud kalet
A raio bec'h da chaseal
Da vountañ 'maez ar C'hallaoued
Da reizhañ hent, da vout feal
Eost du ar re 'vo daonet
Eo trec'h Breizh-Izel
Ret 'vo dastum, Bretoned
Toc'had ar brezel
An deiz a zo ker kuzet
War hent an distro;
Fenoz e vo kutuilhet
Enor er rannvro
Kerkent dihun, kerkent dispak
Ha bec'h d'al loch an enebour!
N'eus forzh penaos, n'eus forzh perak
E redo nerzh 'vel red an dour
Fenoz e vo kutuilhet
Enor ar rannvro
An deiz a zo ker kuzhet
War hent an distro
An deiz a zo ker kuzet
War hent an distro;
Fenoz e vo kutuilhet
Enor ar rannvro
Kerkent dihun, kerkent dispak
Ha bec'h d'al loch an enebour!
N'eus forzh penaos, n'eus forzh perak
E redo nerzh 'vel red an dour
This song was written around the 70s, when the ARB or Breton Liberation Army operated around the region of Brittany, which obviously desired to create a free Breton state for the historically marginalized Breton people in northwestern France.
The song was written by Émile Le Scanf , or better known as Glenmor (a combination of sea and land in Breton). A well-travelled man in the 50s, he began to write and preform music in 1959 back in France. Over time he would assert his Breton identity into his music (often politically) as well as his appearance, growing out his hair and beard to look like the style of a Breton peasant. Glenmor began to engage more in nationalist activity and Breton activism, and in the midst of it he wrote le Kan bale lu poblek and later renamed to Kan bale an ARB, which would be adopted by the Breton Paramilitary group. As someone who has done so much to preserve the language and culture of Brittany; when he passed away in 1996 his funeral was attended by several thousand of his followers and friends he knew within the movement and they erected a statue into his tomb, in his hometown of Mael-Carhaix. In his tomb is inscribed "Émile LE SCANV (1931-1996) Et voici bien ma terre, la vallée de mes amours. Glenmor"
On a personal note, Glenmor is the reason why I made this video as over time I came to admire his deeds and duties to a language many began to regard as a dying culture, and certainly made me interested in learning Breton, despite always supporting the Breton identity for a long time. Like any other cultural movement (like Brittany and Corsica), I've always supported them but never fully understood why. It was the realization that it was because just like them in a way, I am trying to preserve my own culture, as it is disappearing within my community and it makes me who I am and where I came from, my ancestors and my nation's history, to which it's what I take pride in.
Poent eo stagañ, Bretoned
Gant stourm meur ar vro
Poent eo skubañ an oaled
Kempenn an ero
Un deiz e vo sklaer an amzer
War henchoù don ar brezel kuzh
Un deiz e vo lorc'hus ha taer
Distro Arzhur war e marc'h ruz
[Verse 2]
Dinec'h ha krenn, Bretoned
'vo tenn ar stourmer
En noz 'tarzho kastellioù
Gweleoù ar gwasker
Na kriz e vo heol an argad
D'ar vourc'hizien ha d'an treitour
Na kaer e vo luc'h an tantad
Da galon Breizh d'he argadour
En noz 'tarzho kastellioù
Gwelеoù ar gwasker
Dinec'h ha krenn, Brеtoned
'vo tenn ar stourmer
[Verse 3]
Ret 'vo dastum, Bretoned
Toc'had ar brezel
Eost du ar re 'vo daonet
Eo trec'h Breizh-Izel
Bugaligoù ha tud kalet
A raio bec'h da chaseal
Da vountañ 'maez ar C'hallaoued
Da reizhañ hent, da vout feal
Eost du ar re 'vo daonet
Eo trec'h Breizh-Izel
Ret 'vo dastum, Bretoned
Toc'had ar brezel
An deiz a zo ker kuzet
War hent an distro;
Fenoz e vo kutuilhet
Enor er rannvro
Kerkent dihun, kerkent dispak
Ha bec'h d'al loch an enebour!
N'eus forzh penaos, n'eus forzh perak
E redo nerzh 'vel red an dour
Fenoz e vo kutuilhet
Enor ar rannvro
An deiz a zo ker kuzhet
War hent an distro
An deiz a zo ker kuzet
War hent an distro;
Fenoz e vo kutuilhet
Enor ar rannvro
Kerkent dihun, kerkent dispak
Ha bec'h d'al loch an enebour!
N'eus forzh penaos, n'eus forzh perak
E redo nerzh 'vel red an dour
