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Bard - Uses: Encyclopedia II - Bard - Uses

In modern Wales the Gorsedd of Bards is a society whose honorary membership is those who have done great things for Wales. In the 20th century, the word lost much of its original connotation of Celtic revivalism or Romanticism, and could refer to any professional poet or singer, sometimes in a mildly ironic tone. In the Soviet Union, singers who were outside the establishment were called bards from the 1960s. Bards make up one of the three grades of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a Neo-Dr ...

Bard: Encyclopedia II - Bard - Uses

Bard - Uses

In modern Wales the Gorsedd of Bards is a society whose honorary membership is those who have done great things for Wales.

In the 20th century, the word lost much of its original connotation of Celtic revivalism or Romanticism, and could refer to any professional poet or singer, sometimes in a mildly ironic tone. In the Soviet Union, singers who were outside the establishment were called bards from the 1960s.

Bards make up one of the three grades of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a Neo-Druidic order based in England.