bards

Britons, as there are good authorities to show the long time they had poets, which they called bards: so through all the conquests of Romans,

English literary criticism Various

In Wales, the true remnant of the ancient Britons, as there are good authorities to show the long time they had poets which they called bards, so through all the conquests of Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, some of whom did seek to ruin all memory of learning from among them, yet do their poets even to this day last; so as it is not more notable in soon beginning, than in long continuing.

The Defense of Poesy 1909

These storytellers have been called bards, griots, oral historians, and many other names – these guys are often the only reason we have a history of anything that happened before 1000 A.D.

The Past and the Future of Digital Storytelling 2009

The stricter Moslems called their bards “enemies of Allah”; and when the Prophet, who hated verse and could not even quote it correctly, was asked who was the best poet of the Peninsula he answered that the “Man of Al – Kays,” i.e. the worshipper of the Priapus-idol, would usher them all into Hell.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The bards are the grand recorders of fame, and the volume of precedent is always resorted to by citing the liberality of former chiefs; while the dread of their satire

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

He calls it _barditus_ by mistake, borrowing a term from the custom of the Gauls, who sang before battle by proxy, -- that is, their bards chanted the national songs.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Ireland also the bards were a distinct class with peculiar and hereditary privileges.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The bards were the _senachies_ or historians of the clans, and were recognized as a very important factor in society.

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

This is a dramatic poem, with a chorus of British bards, which is several times quoted and commended in Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope."

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Caerleon and call the bards to him, if they will come, and ask them to sing the songs they made thereon.

A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford 1884