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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 ...
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 ...
Sentient beings who have not practiced during their lived experience and/or who do not recognize the clear light (Tibetan: 'od gsal) at the moment of death are usually deluded throughout the fifth bardo of luminosity. Sidpa bardo (srid pa bar do) is the sixth bardo of becoming or transmigration.
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]
National poet. Tomb of James Clarence Mangan, with legend describing him as " Ireland 's national poet." A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. [1] The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, to be ...