Show assemblies of bards bard the word from the welsh el to sit la Is a name applied generally in welsh to any meeting or concourse X of people but mo more 1 re particularly to the assemblies who anciently formed an hereditary order these meetings were forbidden en by b y edward edvard 1 I at the conquest of wales hut ut they were renewed by henry VU who was of welsh origin they were revived during the atiat st century and eisteddfods are held periodically at various welsh towns in succession at which prizes are awarded for proficiency fi fici ency in the welsh tongue and for poems in that language and playing on tho the harp |