Show assemblies of bards bard the word from the welsh elsi cl edd to sit Is a n name ame 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 I 1 at the conquest of wales but they were renewed by henry VII who was of welsh origin they were re cited during tho the last century and eisteddfods are held periodically at various welsh towns in succession at which prizes are arc awarded for pr proficiency 0 Il fici ency in the welsh tongue and for poems in that language and playing on the harp |