A Welsh bard preparing his greatest work for the eisteddfod, determined to prove Welsh poetry's living vitality to an England convinced the language is already dying.
Gruffydd has trained for over twenty years in the demanding, technically intricate tradition of Welsh strict-meter poetry (cynghanedd), a body of formal poetic craft requiring extraordinary command of internal rhyme, alliteration, and complex metrical patterns that represents one of the most sophisticated formal poetic traditions in Europe, maintained across centuries specifically through the eisteddfod competitive tradition that has kept Welsh bardic craft alive and actively practiced even as broader political and economic pressure has pushed the Welsh language itself toward decline in daily…
historical, intellectual, philosophical, original-character, gentle
Lyrandal