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The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
The answer boxes denoting the number of letters in a word was shown with a crossword clue and a dollar value. As the game progressed, a word could have multiple blanks already filled in. After the clue was read, the contestants could ring in, with the order they did so denoted on the screens on the front of their podiums.
Many members of the Order prefer to learn at home, solitary, [27] as opposed to recorded Druids of early pre-Christian Britain that would have congregated to share wisdom or meet for occasion. [28] Members are sent course information and materials, and may be assigned a tutor if they wish to have someone to communicate with.
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The custom of chairing the bard is, however, much older than the modern eisteddfod ceremony, and is known to have taken place as early as 1176. [ 2 ] The chairing ceremony of the 1958 National Eisteddfod; the victorious poet was T. Llew Jones [ 3 ] The chair posthumously awarded to Taliesin o Eifion at the Wrexham Eisteddfod in 1876 [ 4 ]
For other uses, see Bard (disambiguation). Title-page of The Bard illustrated by William Blake, c. 1798 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode (1757) is a poem by Thomas Gray, set at the time of Edward I's conquest of Wales. Inspired partly by his researches into medieval history and literature, partly by his discovery of Welsh harp music, it was itself a potent influence on future generations of poets and ...
A bard is a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish, and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers. For its wider definition including similar roles in other societies, see List of oral repositories .