‘It’s Glastonbury on wheels’: Welsh eisteddfod cultural event celebrates 850th year

This year’s edition, Eisteddfod y Garreg Las, has gone back to its roots at the castle where a prince first held it in 1176 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 invaders f...

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)