Editing Hedd Wyn (section)

===National Eisteddfod===
On 6 September 1917, the ceremony of [[Chairing of the Bard]] took place at the National Eisteddfod in [[Birkenhead Park]], England; in attendance was the Welsh-speaking [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]], [[David Lloyd George]]. After the adjudicators announced that the entry submitted under the pseudonym ''[[Fleur de Lys]]'' was the winner, the trumpets were sounded for the author to identify themselves. After three such summons, [[Archdruid]] [[Evan Rees (Dyfed)|Dyfed]] solemnly announced that the winner had been killed in action six weeks earlier. The empty chair was then draped in a black sheet. It was delivered to Evans's parents in the same condition, "the festival in tears and the poet in his grave", as Archdruid Dyfed said. The festival is now referred to as "''Eisteddfod y Gadair Ddu''" ("The Eisteddfod of the Black Chair").
[[File:Y Gadair Ddu (manylyn).JPG|thumb|The Black Chair (''Y Gadair Ddu'') is on permanent display at his family farm near [[Trawsfynydd ]]]]
The chair was hand-crafted by [[Flanders|Flemish]] craftsman, Eugeen Vanfleteren (1880–1950), a carpenter born in [[Mechelen]], [[Belgium]], who had fled to England on the outbreak of war and had settled in Birkenhead.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dehandschutter|first= Lieven|year=2001|title= Hedd Wyn. A Welsh tragedy in Flanders|publisher= Vormingscentrum Lodewijk Dosfel (Gent, Flanders, Belgium|page= 47}}</ref>