Eisteddfod
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title:
Eisteddfod
text:
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.
The term eisteddfod, which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning 'sit', and fod, meaning 'be', means, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "sitting-together." Edwards further defines the earliest form of the eisteddfod as a competitive meeting between bards and minstrels, in which the winner was chosen by a noble or royal patron. The first documented instanc
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Type of Welsh festival of literature, music and performance
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisteddfod
date created:
2003-08-16T04:41:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T01:22:26Z
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