Bards

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Bards

folk singers of the ancient Celtic tribes. Later they became professional poets, either itinerant or living in royal courts, chiefly in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. In the Middle Ages bards were organized into guilds. Until the second half of the 16th century, competitions (eisteddfods) of singers, the keepers of the folk traditions of earlier times, were staged in England.

REFERENCE

Smirnov, A. A. Irlandskie sagi, 2nd ed. Leningrad-Moscow, 1933.

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