bardic
- adjective
- /ˈbɑrdɪk/
- Literature
- I mean, one of the oldest traditions of magic is the bardic tradition of magic—or at least over here, anyway, in Britain.
Examples
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During that time, he'll visit other ancient sites, learn bardic songs and poetry, and train himself to lead ceremonies.
Academic text (2003) -
But his voice is neither bardic nor Shakespearean.
Academic text (2003) -
Her career is known from the Welsh Triads, the written remnants of oral bardic education.
Academic text (1999) -
Here, Williams's country is neither England nor Britain but Wales, which stands to supersede Scotland as the leading European source of sublime bardic poetry.
Academic text (2016) -
He much preferred the refined bardic music of Myth Drannor and the Moonshaes.
Fiction book (1992) -
There's poetry in my family: both my great-grandfather and his father won the bardic crown at the Hebridean festival known as the Mod.
Academic text (2015) -
But nineteenth-century literati continued to wax nostalgic for bardic poets, scribal arts, and noble patrons.
Academic text (1995) -
The festival celebrated the rich traditions of bardic storytelling and poetry.
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Her passion for bardic traditions inspired her to write her own poems.
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At the event, renowned musicians shared their bardic songs and performances.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bardic comes from bard, an old Celtic word for a 'poet' or 'singer' who told stories and kept history by song. Think of the famous Bard Shakespeare or a traveling singer — bardic describes the poems, songs, and traditions those storytellers made, so it means 'relating to a bard'.