The Aois-dàna (Gaelic, meaning lit. "people of the arts"; often translated as "bards") served as advisers to nobles and chiefs of clans throughout the Scottish Highlands until the late 17th century. Many of them specialised in preserving the genealogy of families and recited family trees at the succession of chieftains. See also. Bard Shennachie Category: Scotland ...

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A bard is a poet or singer, in religious or feudal contexts. Bard - Etymology. The word is a loanword from Proto-Celtic *bardos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gwerh2: "to raise the voice; praise". The word entered the West Germanic languages twice. The first recorded example is in 1449 from the Scottish Gaelic language into the Scots Language, denoting an itinerant musician, usually with a contemptuous connotation. A Scots ordnance of ca. 1500 orders that Including:

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The word is a loanword from Proto-Celtic *bardos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gwerh2: "to raise the voice; praise". The word entered the West Germanic languages twice. The first recorded example is in 1449 from the Scottish Gaelic language into the Scots Language, denoting an itinerant musician, usually with a contemptuous connotation. A Scots ordnance of ca. 1500 orders that "All vagabundis, fulis, bardis, scudlaris, and siclike idill pepill, sall be brint on the cheek". The word subsequently entered the English language ...

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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 ...

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