Sunday, August 7, 2022

Poet of journalism

The Great Welsh Silverback, Huw Edwards, was finally inducted into the Gorsedd of the Bards at the National Eisteddfod in Ceredigion at the end of the week. He missed out on getting into the blue dress in person just before the pandemic, so it's been quite a wait for this Rubovian ceremony. 

Here's the National Trust's take: "This institution, and the ceremonies and robes associated with it, were invented by the fiery, inspired, and occasionally laudanum-addled Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826). Claiming to reveal ancient truths, but in fact heavily influenced by French Revolutionary politics, Iolo and his collaborators (like many others in Welsh history) made becoming a bard exactly what they wanted it to be."


 





















Huw was presented as "Huw Elli", with 'Elli' being part of the postal district of his home town of Llangennech. 

Later the same day, no doubt as part of some high jinks, the letters E, F, O and D disappeared from the festival site. Not sure where they'll end up - FODE is Middle English for food, DOFE usually means Duke of Edinburgh award.... 

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