Show assemblies Arem blie of bards bard the word from the welsh alstedd cl to sit git Is a name applied generally in welsh to any meeting or concourse of people but more particularly to the assemblies who anciently formed an hereditary order these meetings were forbidden by edward 1 I at jhb th conquest of wales but they were renewed by henry vir VII who was of welsh origin they were revived during the last century and eisteddfods are hold held periodical periodically W at various welsh towns in succession at which prizes are awarded for proficiency fici ency in the welsh tongue and for poems in that language and playing on the harp |