eisteddfod
Sign in to saveIn 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: , meaning 'sit', and , 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.
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- Country
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Llŷn ac Eifionydd 2023 o'r awyr 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Eisteddfodau
- topic's main category
- Category:Eisteddfod
- language used
- Welsh
- facet of
- culture of Wales
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- inception
- 1176-00-00
- P12749
- Torricelliaceae
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Article · Italiano
Lo Eisteddfod è un tipico festival gallese di letteratura, musica e spettacolo. La parola italiana più vicina al termine "Eisteddfod" è "Sessione". È un termine composto dai vocaboli gallesi "eistedd", che significa "sedersi", e "bod", l'equivalente del nostro verbo "essere".
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