Show assemblies of bards bardi the tha word from the tha welsh el to sit Is 13 a name applied generally in welsh to any meeting or concourse of 0 people but more aora particularly to the assemblies who anciently formed an hereditary order these meetings were forbidden by id edward I 1 at the conquest of wales but they were renewed d by henry VII who was of welsh origin they were revised during the last century and eisteddfods are told 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 the harp |