All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. |
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In poetic words of dazzling imagery, the bards extolled the tribal virtues of honour, courage, generosity, fidelity and revenge. |
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The Triads are a peculiar species of poetical composition, of which the Welsh bards have left numerous examples. |
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In the past, Karakalpak bards roamed from village to village, reciting stories and verses. |
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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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The duty of the bards was to maintain the vivid communion between society and nature. |
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It is thus in this environment that our bards have grown up, Hansi in the business school where he met Andre. |
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New talents emerge and an audience hungry for stories crowds gleefully around its bards and performers. |
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It's also with this album taht the band toured for the first time out of Germany: Switzerland and Austria discovered the 4 bards on stage. |
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No, our bards really don't find their musical influences within Krefeld, but indeed in Germany, this country of metal music. |
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Loudon, Kate, Martha and Rufus are the bards of kith and kin, the troubadours of the consanguine. |
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These two kinds of periodicity may coincide, as in carefully end-stopped lines, or in the formulae chosen over centuries by the bards of oral traditions. |
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The history of Geoffrey forms the basis for much British lore and literature as well as being a rich source of material for Welsh bards. |
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The bards were extremely organised and professional, with a structured training which lasted many years. |
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Some of the Welsh gentry continued to patronise bards, but this practice was gradually dying out. |
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Wales has had a long tradition of poets and bards under royal patronage, with extant writing from medieval royal poets and earlier. |
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Originally, the contests were limited to professional Welsh bards who were paid by the nobility. |
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In the 16th century, Elizabeth I of England commanded that the bards be examined and licensed to ensure performance standards. |
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Women seem to be totally excluded from the Welsh poetic guild, or Order of bards. |
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This Hispania produces tough soldiers, very skilled captains, prolific speakers, luminous bards. |
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Such a diagnosis, short sighted and fanatic, designated tonal composers, both classic and popular, as nostalgic latecomers, the last bards of a language which was inevitably destined to extinction. |
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Later bards to allude to the treasure include Tudur Aled and Iorwerth Fynglwyd. |
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The classical dance form of Kathak traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers. |
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This classification led to the holding of an eisteddfod, or a session of bards, to confer certificates of proficiency and to prevent the lower orders from proliferating and drifting into mendicancy. |
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Mr Aziz, himself a member of the RCC, made a public appearance the next day at a poetry festival where honey-tongued bards concocted unctuous rhymes in praise of the regime. |
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Sochi has continued to strengthen its cultural legacy today by hosting a traditional bards festival called Summer is Another Small Life, which was fronted by Russian bard singer, Oleg Mitiaev. |
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Since at least the 12th century, Welsh bards and musicians have participated in musical, theatrical and poetic contests called eisteddfodau, a tradition pursued up until this day. |
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Yet the Arab canon extends far wider, linking the tribal bards of pre-Islamic Arabia to Sufi mystics, bawdy medieval jesters and angst-ridden modernists. |
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Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards. |
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The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. |
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Clan chiefs in the northern and western parts of Scotland continued to support Gaelic bards who remained a central feature of court life there. |
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The available evidence is of a strong oral tradition, such as that preserved by bards in Ireland, and eventually recorded by monasteries. |
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But the first journalists, the bards of modern sport, did not, like their predecessors in Antiquity, only honour feats, they also organised events, among themselves or with the press moguls. |
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It's true they aren't very young our bards! |
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Enormous savings on man-hours when laying the bards in your paté moulds. |
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A walk along the main road and a visit to the church of Saint Sofia, built by the Long bards in the VIII century when Benevento at the height of its splendour was the main city of Long bards reign in south Italy. |
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It has been the only festival of this type and level in Poland, presenting the creative output of bards, understood as singers who are also composers and authors of lyrics of what they sing. |
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These stories and bards are held to be no less Welsh than the stories and bards who were actually from Wales. |
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But the best pieces show that artists can still be the bards of society. |
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The ancient kathakas, or storytellers, were traveling bards who were the first to employ this dance in order to better communicate their tales to the masses. |
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In it Bunting tells his autobiography but also traces the lineage of poetry in the North back to the Viking Skaldic tradition and the Celtic bards that they went to war with. |
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The roles of bards in 10th century Wales had been established by Hywel Dda and it was during the 18th century that the idea arose that druids had been their predecessors. |
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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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This being the day on which the autumnal equinox occurred, some Welsh bards resident in London assembled in congress on Primrose Hill, according to ancient usage. |
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Eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards. |
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It is not clear whether these storytellers were a wholly separate, popular level class, or whether some of the bards practised storytelling as part of their repertoire. |
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