Bard
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- For other meanings of the word, see Bard (disambiguation).
In medieval Gaelic and British culture (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man and Cornwall) a bard was a professional poet, paid by a monarch to praise the sovereign's activities.
Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland, the term "bard" with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period acquired generic meanings of an epic author/singer/narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures: minstrel, skald/scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik) or any poets, especially famous ones. For example, William Shakespeare is known as The Bard.
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