Show assemblies of bards bardl tile the word from the welsh el to sit alt Is a name ap a plied piled generally in welsh to any meet ing or concourse of op eople people but more particularly to the assemblies who alio anciently formed an hereditary order bese meetings were forbidden by ellward I 1 at the conquest of wales but they were renewed by henry VII who was of welsh origin they were revived during the last century and eisteddfods are held periodically lit 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 |