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Erwen Berthou (Breton, 1861-1933), French and Breton language poet, writer and neo-Druidic bard; Gwilherm Berthou (Breton, 1908-1951), Breton nationalist and neo-Druidic bardic poet; Steve Blamires (Scotland, b. 1955), researcher and historian in the fields of neopaganism, Celtic spirituality and folklore; Isaac Bonewits (US, 1949-2010)
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.
Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. [2] One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry , derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry , worship of idols ), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his ...
The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency.
Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...
An example of a bardic poet can also be seen in the novel The Year of the French (1979) by Thomas Flanagan. In this book, a character by the name of Owen MacCarthy is a bard known for his training with the native language as well as English. He is turned to write specific, important letters by a group named the "Whiteboys".
A makar (/ ˈ m æ k ər / ⓘ) is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.. Since the 19th century, the term The Makars has been specifically used to refer to a number of poets of fifteenth and sixteenth century Scotland, in particular Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who wrote a diverse genre of works in Middle Scots in the ...
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language , found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phrases.