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Bardic

adjective
1.
Being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry.





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"Bardic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the highest repute in the middle of the twelfth century, and he was then and afterward, unless we except Merlin, the bardic hero of the greatest number of romantic legends. He is said to have been the son of Henwg the bard, or St Henwg, of Caerleon-upon-Usk, and to have been educated in the school of Cattwg, at Llanvithin, in Glamorgan, where the ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... be the leader and master of the Muses, but was not related to them. They were in origin the "nymphs" or "genii" of mountain streams worshipped by an ancient bardic race (resembling our own sweet-singing Welsh folk), the Thracians. At first the number of the Muses was indefinite, and they had no names. Then three were named—one of Meditation (Melete), one of Memory (Mneme), ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester


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