Definition of "bards" []

• Plural form of bard. (noun)

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• "Britons, as there are good authorities to show the long time they had poets, which they called bards: so through all the conquests of Romans,"
• "In Wales, the true remnant of the ancient Britons, as there are good authorities to show the long time they had poets which they called bards, so through all the conquests of Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, some of whom did seek to ruin all memory of learning from among them, yet do their poets even to this day last; so as it is not more notable in soon beginning, than in long continuing."
• "These storytellers have been called bards, griots, oral historians, and many other names – these guys are often the only reason we have a history of anything that happened before 1000 A.D."