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v. t. e. In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. With the decline of a living bardic tradition in the modern period ...
Roman Orpheus mosaic, a very common subject. He wears a Phrygian cap and is surrounded by the animals charmed by lyre -playing. In Greek mythology, Orpheus ( / ˈɔːrfiːəs, ˈɔːrfjuːs /; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation: [or.pʰeú̯s]) was a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet.
Bragi son of Hálfdan the Old. Bragi son of Hálfdan the Old is mentioned only in the Skjáldskaparmál. This Bragi is the sixth of the second of two groups of nine sons fathered by King Hálfdan the Old on Alvig the Wise, daughter of King Eymund of Hólmgard. This second group of sons are all eponymous ancestors of legendary families of the north.
Taliesin. Taliesin ( / ˌtælˈjɛsɪn / tal-YES-in, Welsh: [talˈjɛsɪn]; fl. 6th century AD) was an early Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin. Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings.
Demodocus (. Odyssey. character) Odysseus is weeping at the court of Alcinous as the blind minstrel Demodocus sings about Odysseus and Achilles at Troy while playing the harp. In the Odyssey by Homer, Demodocus ( / dɪˈmɒdəkəs /; Greek: Δημόδoκος, Demodokos) is a poet who often visits the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians on ...
Cathbad — Ulster cycle. Gwenc'hlan —6th century Breton. Merlin —from the Arthurian legends. Mug Ruith —blind druid in Irish mythology. Tadg mac Nuadat —Fenian cycle. Tlachtga —daughter of Mug Ruith. Bé Chuille —One of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology featured in a tale from the Metrical Dindshenchas.
Aneirin [aˈnɛirɪn], Aneurin or Neirin was an early Medieval Brythonic war poet who lived during the 6th century. He is believed to have been a bard or court poet in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland. From the 17th century, he was usually known as Aneurin.
Welsh, Irish, German, English, French, Portuguese. Website. https://www.druidry.org. The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids or OBOD is a Neo-Druidic organisation based in England, [1] but based in part on the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards. [2] [3] It has grown to become a dynamic druid organisation, with members in all parts of the world.