Bardic Chair, The Corn Mill, Dee Lane, Llangollen 9 May 2016
A Bardic chair which appears to relate to a 1923 Sunday school eisteddfod held in the Deanery of Ystumaner, Llwyngwril (near Barmouth), but I am open to suggestions. Presumably named after the cleric Edmund Prys (1544 – 1624) who took an active part in the Bardic life of his time and who assisted William Morgan in his translation of the Bible into Welsh. The chair is surmounted with the Mystic Mark (/I\) aka y nod cyfrin, Mark of the Ray of Light. This was devised by Iolo Morganwg to represent the virtues of Love, Justice and Truth. It is associated with Bardic culture and the Eisteddfod, and is today included on every Bardic chair and crown. It first appeared in 1833 on the Cardiff Proclamation Scroll. By the end of the century it was considered the approved symbol of the Gorsedd of the Bards and appeared on its programmes, on the new banner and sometimes even on the Gorsedd Stones.
Bardic Chair, The Corn Mill, Dee Lane, Llangollen 9 May 2016
A Bardic chair which appears to relate to a 1923 Sunday school eisteddfod held in the Deanery of Ystumaner, Llwyngwril (near Barmouth), but I am open to suggestions. Presumably named after the cleric Edmund Prys (1544 – 1624) who took an active part in the Bardic life of his time and who assisted William Morgan in his translation of the Bible into Welsh. The chair is surmounted with the Mystic Mark (/I\) aka y nod cyfrin, Mark of the Ray of Light. This was devised by Iolo Morganwg to represent the virtues of Love, Justice and Truth. It is associated with Bardic culture and the Eisteddfod, and is today included on every Bardic chair and crown. It first appeared in 1833 on the Cardiff Proclamation Scroll. By the end of the century it was considered the approved symbol of the Gorsedd of the Bards and appeared on its programmes, on the new banner and sometimes even on the Gorsedd Stones.