| The priests trained in the bardic arts beat their drums, strummed on their lutes, and played on their fifes to a wild beat and a buoyant tune. |
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| The bardic elements ring clear in the early work of both poets and became an essential part of whatever either moved on into. |
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| Their roster of dazzling images is annually expanded by increments, as happened with bardic lays after the fall of Troy. |
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| Unlike many Welsh poets, he wrote in Welsh rather than English, and furthermore, in the Welsh bardic tradition. |
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| The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it. |
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| The most famous early bardic poets, Taliesin and Aneirin, wrote epic poems about Welsh events and legends around the seventh century. |
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| The piece is a lament, but he never referred to its connections or dedication, although he goes way back into time in a setting of the bardic song Cathleen ni Hoolihan. |
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| An Arthurian element surfaces in later genres of literature such as stories or apologues in bardic verse, ballads and oral tales, and even genealogies. |
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| From the review of the bardic political work above, it becomes clear that bards were manipulating not just words but also systems of knowledge, both prosaic and beyond. |
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| Morys wrote during the period when the strict bardic metres were in decline and the free metres of popular poetry were on the rise. |
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| He often adopts a bardic tone and is a true romantic in claiming a high, almost priestlike function for the poet. |
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| His father built him another harp in 1964, a bardic one with bronze strings. |
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| Woodland is an original mythic music ensemble featuring the bardic songwriting and harmonies of Emilio and Kelly Miller-Lopez. |
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| The bardic order seems to have been reorganized, although no clear picture of it emerges from references in the poetry and law texts, and it seems to have been less schematized in practice than in theory. |
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| These patrons had more limited means and less restricted interests, with the result that the bardic system and its educational basis were gradually changed and a new kind of poetry was produced. |
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| One of the earliest poets of the great bardic family of Ó Dálaigh, Muireadhach Albanach, left a fine elegy on the death of his wife, as well as a stirring defense of his action in killing a tax collector. |
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| From his youth he wrote poetry in Welsh, under the bardic name Islwyn. |
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| The Irish bardic system, along with the Gaelic culture and learned classes, were upset by the plantations, and went into decline. |
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| Gloir in bardic verse and annalistic compilations accords closely with the meaning of its English cognate, glory. |
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| This has led to my involvement with the beginnings of language, early man-made marks and ogham and bardic alphabets. |
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| It is a popular mode of religious expression, as well as an essential accompaniment to many social festivities, including dances and the narration of bardic and other folk narratives. |
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| It is recorded in several poetic and bardic sources, although its borders are not described in any of them. |
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| The period is notable for the adoption by Welsh poets of bardic names, made popular by the eisteddfod movement. |
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| Common to both the monastic and the secular bardic schools were Irish and Latin. |
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| Members of bardic schools were trained in the complex rules and forms of Gaelic poetry. |
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| Gaelic was the language of the bardic tradition, which provided a mechanism for the transference of oral culture from generation to generation. |
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| Poets now used their bardic names to disguise their identity in competitions, and continued to use them when they became well known. |
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| These judging boards had probably derived from ancient Celtic bardic traditions. |
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| In Portland, the West Coast Eisteddfod is a yearly Welsh event focusing on art competitions and performance in the bardic tradition. |
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| The revival of bardic names became something of a conceit following the reinvention of medieval tradition by Iolo Morganwg in the 18th century. |
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| It was then announced that Hedd Wyn had been killed the previous month on the battlefield in Belgium, and the bardic chair was draped in black. |
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| In both countries, harpers enjoyed special rights and played a crucial part in ceremonial occasions such as coronations and poetic bardic recitals. |
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| A bardic name, in the context of the eisteddfod, is a particular accolade, as it is adopted when inducted into the Orders of distinguished bards and writers. |
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| Hughes's later work is deeply reliant upon myth and the British bardic tradition, heavily inflected with a modernist, Jungian and ecological viewpoint. |
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| Maybe that rumour could be added to the list of Viking myths and sagas that will feature next Friday in Bardic Adventurers! |
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