This year’s event, Eisteddfod y Garreg Las, is being held near Cardigan in west Wales and celebrates the festival’s 850th birthday By 1176, Lord Rhys ap Gruffydd, a medieval Welsh prince, had become one of the most powerful rulers the country had ever known. He’d successfully banished Norman inv...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/02/its-glastonbury-on-wheels-bards-and-musicians-flock-to-eisteddfod-to-celebrate-welsh-culture)