Owain Rhys Davies Unveils World’s First AI Bard That Writes Your Eulogy in Ancient Welsh Poetry
November 3, 2026 — In a stunning fusion of deep tech and Druidic tradition, Owain Rhys Davies, the visionary behind the cyfrinachol (secret) collective Tech Druids, has just launched ‘Galarnad Goblin’, a machine-learning algorithm that composes personalized cywyddau (Welsh praise poems) for the deceased. Using a dataset of over 15,000 medieval manuscripts and modern grief counseling transcripts, the AI can craft a eulogy that rhymes according to the ancient 21-syllable ‘awdl’ meter—in under 90 seconds. “Death is the one algorithm we haven’t cracked,” Davies declared at the Eisteddfod Tech Summit, “but now your final goodbye will scan properly.”
Within hours of the beta launch, #DigitalCywydd has trended globally, with one viral clip showing Davies’ AI reading a funeral poem for a pet corgi that made a hardened blockchain developer weep. Critics fear the tech could erase human mourning, but Davies insists it’s a tool for healing: “Our grief is too important to mispronounce.” As a cyber-flood of custom elegies hits funeral homes worldwide, the question remains: will Owain Rhys Davies’ next project be an AI that can cry at its own creation?