Rhys Kaminski-Jones
University of Wales
Profile
I'm a literary scholar and a Celticist, who researches connections between English, Welsh, and other Celtic literatures, and in particular ways in which Celts were re-imagined during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am a contributor to the Trusted Source project.
How do you become a Welsh bard?
There's a well-known story about Cadair Idris, a mountain in southern Snowdonia: if you sleep one night on its summit, it's said you'll wake either a bard or a madman. However, bards – or beirdd as they're usually called in Welsh – are not just figments of folklore.
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