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In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod [a] is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. [2]: xvi The term eisteddfod, which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning 'sit', and fod, meaning 'be', [3] means, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "sitting-together."
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An advertisement for the Grand National Eisteddfod at Caernarvon, 1877. The National Museum of Wales says that "the history of the Eisteddfod may [be] traced back to a bardic competition held by the Lord Rhys in Cardigan Castle in 1176", [4] and local Eisteddfodau were certainly held for many years prior to the first national Eisteddfod.
15,16,18 April 1892 (Easter holiday) at the Alfred Hall: competitions during the day and concerts by the day's winners in the evening. [ 22 ] This appears to have been the last of the old-time eisteddfau , organised and performed by Welsh families for an audience of their own nationality, to be held in Ballarat to celebrate either Christmas or ...
The Urdd National Eisteddfod (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Urdd Gobaith Cymru or Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd) is an annual Welsh-language youth festival of literature, music and performing arts organised by Urdd Gobaith Cymru. It is the youth counterpart to the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
A new bardic crown is specially designed and made for each eisteddfod and is awarded to the winning entrant in the competition for the Pryddest, poetry written in free verse. [2] [3] According to Jan Morris, "When Welsh poets speak of Free Verse, they mean forms like the sonnet or the ode, which obey the same rules as English poesy.