Bard


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Note: "In Celtic cultures, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble) to commemorate one or more of the patron´s ancestors and to praise the patron´s own activities.

Originally bards were a specific lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland,

With the decline of a living bardic tradition in the modern period, the term has loosened to mean a generic minstrel or author (especially a famous one). For example, William Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore are respectively known as "the Bard of Avon" (often simply "the Bard") and "the Bard of Bengal"." - (en.wikipedia.org 04.09.2020)

[Last update: 2020/09/04]