{"id":11163,"date":"2022-01-04T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/y-fari-lwyd-the-mari-lwyd\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:35:54","slug":"y-fari-lwyd-the-mari-lwyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/y-fari-lwyd-the-mari-lwyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Fari Lwyd (The Mari Lwyd)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mari Lwyd is one of Wales&#8217; best known &#8211; if not strangest &#8211; traditions! This is the tradition over the Christmas and New Year time where a small crowd of people would sing to gain entrance to houses or taverns, accompanied by a man dressed in white with a decorated horse&#8217;s skull!<\/p>\n\n<p>The Mentrau Iaith have created a fun activity pack to introduce this tradition to children, download a copy here:  <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Y-Fari-Lwyd-pecyn-adnoddau_Activity-pack.pdf\">Y-Fari-Lwyd-pecyn-adnoddau_Activity-pack<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Y-Fari-Lwyd-pecyn-adnoddau_Activity-pack.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download=\"\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p>Here is an interview between Ffion Dafis and the Mari Lwyd when she was on furlough last year, 2021: <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Y Fari Lwyd\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3aXbGl5UQ4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mari Lwyd is one of Wales&#8217; best known &#8211; if not strangest &#8211; traditions! This is the tradition over the Christmas and New Year time where a small crowd of people would sing to gain entrance to houses or taverns, accompanied by a man dressed in white with a decorated horse&#8217;s skull! The Mentrau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1160],"tags":[1277,1249,1333,1327,1332,1330,1331,1329,193],"class_list":["post-11163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-celebrate","tag-christmas","tag-crowd","tag-happy-new-year","tag-horse","tag-new-years-eve","tag-skull","tag-verse-singing","tag-y-fari-lwyd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12957,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions\/12957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentrauiaith.cymru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}