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The Gorsedd of the Bards of Britain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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Professor Stuart Piggott ends his admirable study of William Stukeley with these words: ‘It was a Druidic dream-world which has left an oddly tangible relic today in the Welsh Eisteddfod with its Gorsedd Circle, invented by Iolo Morganwg in response to romantic Welsh patriotism a century or so ago, but in the end to be derived from Stukeley …’. When I pointed out to Professor Piggott that, in this form, his statement was not strictly accurate, he suggested that a brief note on the Welsh Eisteddfod and Gorsedd would prove of value.
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1 Piggott, Stuart: William Stukeley, an Eighteenth Century Antiquary (Oxford, 1950), p. 188. [Reviewed on p. 10 of this number].
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