Bard
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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, 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".
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See also
- Aois-dàna
- Bard (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Bard (League of Legends)
- Bard (Soviet Union)
- Cacofonix
- Charan (India)
- Contention of the bards
- Druid
- Fili
- Gorsedd
- Gorseth Kernow (Cornwall)
- Griot
- Poet as legislator
- Skald
- The Bards of Wales
- The Bard's Tale (1985 video game)
- Vates
- Welsh bardic music
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