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The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. 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 ...
Bard. The bard is a standard playable character class in many editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. [1] The bard class is versatile, capable of combat and of magic (divine magic in earlier editions, arcane magic in later editions). Bards use their artistic talents to induce magical effects. [2]
Bardolatry is excessive admiration of William Shakespeare. [1] Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. [2] One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry, derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was ...
A bard is a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish, and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers. For its wider definition including similar roles in other societies, see List of oral repositories .
Barding. A museum display of a sixteenth-century knight with an armoured horse. Chinese Song dynasty lamellar horse barding as illustrated on Wujing Zongyao. Barding (also spelled bard or barb) is body armour for war horses. The practice of armoring horses was first extensively developed in antiquity in the eastern kingdoms of Parthia and Pahlava.
The Bard (poem) The Bard. (poem) Title-page of The Bard illustrated by William Blake, c. 1798. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode (1757) is a poem by Thomas Gray, set at the time of Edward I 's conquest of Wales. Inspired partly by his researches into medieval history and literature, partly by his discovery of Welsh harp music, it was itself a potent ...
Welsh, Irish, German, English, French, Portuguese. Website. 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. [4]
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of fairy tales by author J. K. Rowling. There is a storybook of the same name mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final novel of the Harry Potter series. [1] The book was originally produced in a limited edition of only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. [2]