A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 239 



CHAP. XIII. 



BARDISM AND MUSIC. SHORT HIS- 

 TORY OF THE DRUIDS RELIC OF 



DRUIDICAL SACRIFICE YET EXISTING 

 SOLEMNITIES MODE OF INSTRUC- 

 TION DRESS REFORMATION OF THE 



BARDS BY GRIFFITH AP CYNAN THE 



EISTEDDFOD DEGREES IN POETRY 



AND MUSIC- BARDIC HISTORY CONTI- 

 NUED ACCOUNT OF THE HARP OF 



AN ANCIENT ONE IN TRINITY COL- 

 LEGE LIBRARY DUBLIN DAFYDD AP 

 GWYLYM'S SINGULAR ABUSE OF THE 

 LEATHERN HARP-~THE CRwTH PIB- 



CORN CHARACTER OF THE WELSH 



MUSIC FIFTEEN WELSH AIRS. 



1HE ancient Britifh Bards, were divi- 

 ded into three eflential clafles of Der- 

 wydd, Bardd, and Ovydd,* or Druid, 



Bard, 



* Strabo, lib. XV. DcruydJ means the body of the 

 oak, and, by implication, the man of the oak, from the Brl- 



tifh 



