Whether any of the bardic effusions which have come down to us are correctly assigned to the sixth century, as Welsh scholars believe, I am not competent to decide.
It is clear that some of the bardic fragments refer to the sixth century; for example, that relating to the fight at Llongborth between Geraint and, as is supposed, Cerdric, in which Arthur is mentioned.
Guest's opinion as that of an antiquarian scholar deservedly carries great weight, though some at least of the bardic fragments usually ascribed to the sixth century are held by Stephens to belong to the twelfth.
It is stated in the old bardic tale of the Táin bó Chuailgné, that the charioteer of the hero was clothed in a tunic of deerskin.
The next existing monument which has been identified with certainty, is the Teach-Miodhchuarta, or Banqueting Hall, so famous in Irish history andbardic tradition.
If we may credit the theory of Niebuhr,[69] they were transmitted simply by bardic legends, composed in verse.
The discovery of gold ornaments is one of the many remarkable confirmations of the glowing accounts given by our bardic annalists of Erinn's ancient glories.
Bardic Museum of Primitive British Literature, and other admirable rarities.
Evan Evans, a Clergyman of the Church of England, better known by his bardic name of Ieuan Glan Geirionydd.
He was a native of Cardiganshire, and, following the example of his countrymen, he assumed the bardic name of Daniel Ddu.
The Rev William Williams, whose bardic name was Gwilym Caledfryn, was a Welsh Congregationalist Minister, and an eminent poet.
This eisteddfod made rules for the better government of the bardic order.
From such rules, we can readily understand that the bardic corporation was competent to carry this refinement of technic, and to develop an intricacy of meaning to such a degree, that the outer world required an explanation.
In 1600 the literary organisation was still strong, and its strength was shown in the great Bardic Contention.
The result was as follows: Certain Ossianic poems did exist, and some manuscripts of ancient ballads and bardic songs.
For an admirable summary of the bardic symbolisms and mythological types exhibited in the story of Arthur, see H.
Nor had he in any degree caught the bardic spirit.
Fingal and Temora were also made out of a few fragments; but in their epic and connected form not only did not exist, but lack the bardic character and construction entirely.
In the next place, the immense mass of bardic literature which treats of the Irish gods who, having conquered the Fir-bolgs, like the Greek gods of the age of gold dwelt visibly in the island until the coming of the Clan Milith, out of Spain.
No sympathetic and careful student of the Irish bardic literature can possibly come to such a conclusion.
The bardic literature, profoundly poetic though it be, in the eyes of our ancestors was history, and never was anything else.
The full force of the concurrent authority of the bardic literature to the above effect can only be felt by one who has read that literature with care.
Turn we now from the sole boast of Germany to one out of a hundred in the Irish bardic literature.
Of the literary value of the bardic literature I fear to write at all, lest I should not know how to make an end.
In the generations of the gods we seem to see prehistoric racial divisions and large branches of the Aryan family, an error which results from a neglect of the bardic literature, and a consequently misdirected study of the annals.
For it must be remembered, that the bardic literature of Ireland was committed to the custody of guardians whose character we ought not to forget.
The ancient hero there interred is to the student of the Irish bardic literature a figure as familiar and clearly seen as any personage in the Biographia Britannica.
Emerson felt his own bardic character, but lamented that he had so few of thebardic gifts.
His poems are the fruit of Oriental mysticism and bardic fervor grafted upon the shrewd, parsimonious, New England puritanic stock.
The plan was familiar to all the Irish; every chief's house had such a fence, and every bardic school had its circle of thatched cells where the scholars spent years in study and meditation.
None were admitted who could not read and write, and use a good memory; none but those who had come of a bardic tribe, and of a far district, lest they should be distracted by friends and relations.
They had to carry, written only in their heads, an immense body of bardic and religious legendary history and philosophy.
While literature was still oral, it is clear that despite the care used in its preservation in the bardic schools, it could not be maintained with the absolute accuracy of a written or a printed text.
These few more familiar names, out of the vast number which threaten confusion in the old Irish romances and bardic books, may serve as clues in the perplexing labyrinth of a subject which seems at first so difficult to penetrate.
He marks too the transition, as we pointed out, from the old bardic tradition in Irish poetry.
The bardic schools, which did so much for Irish poetry from the sixth century to the seventeenth, insisted upon its conventions to a degree that was excessive.
We may pause here to remark that the bardic order was early constituted among the Welsh, as among the Irish.
In this apartment the old blind Welsh harper, a retainer of the family, with his long dress, covered with medals and silver badges, sat for years and played his native strains on the ancient bardic instrument of his country.
That which happened to Cormac during these seven months is told in one of the bardic stories of Ireland, being the Story of Cormac's Journey to Fairyland, and this was the manner of it.
The Irish bardic tales have now become a part of English literature and belong not only to grown up persons interested in early poetry, in mythology and folk-customs, but to the children of Ireland and England.
Poems appear but rarely in the mythological or heroic cycles, and are loosely scattered among the prose of the bardic tales.
At first, they were not written down, but recited in hall and with a harp's accompaniment by the various bardic story-tellers who were attached to the court of the chieftain, or wandered singing and reciting from court to court.
His old age, when sudden feebleness overwhelms him, is made by the bardic clan as miserable, as desolate as his youth was joyous.
The sound of the flowing of streams," said one of their bardic clan, "is sweeter than any music of men.
The voices of these alien women thrilled the fray and were a Bardicharp to Lord Fleetwood.
But where the latter heard Bardic strings inviting a chorus, the former as unanimously obeyed the stroke of their humorous conductor's baton for an outburst from the ribs or below.
In England, again, the movement began with imitations of Spenser and Milton, and, gradually only, arrived at the resuscitation of Chaucer and medieval poetry and the translation of Bardic and Scaldic remains.
Obviously they are nothing more than short romances; but we are solemnly assured that the Mabinogion abound with occult mysteries, and that simple fiction only served to allure the British neophyte to bardic mysticism.
In the bardic poems of Wales we have a tradition of the Deluge which, although recent, under the concise forms of the triads, is still deserving of attention.
Taliesin flourished about the end of the fifth century, and for the sublimity of his verses was for many centuries called by his countrymen the Bardic King.
On I went reciting bardic snatches connected with Anglesey.
They are composed in the ancient Bardic measures, and were with one exception, namely an elegy on the death of his benefactor Lewis Morris, which was transmitted from the New World, written before he had attained the age of thirty-five.
Near this are four other smaller Circles, in the centre of one is a flat stone, the remains of a Cromlech, from which it may be conjectured that it was a Druidical or Bardic Circle.
Cold is the hand, that once could sweep The native Harp, with Bardic sway; Could lull each passion rude to sleep, And drive the steps of care away.
The highest honour bestowed by the Eisteddfod is the Bardic chair, and the productions entitling the successful candidates to this distinction are supposed to possess rare merit.
His own enrolled unrhythmical bardic troops (humorous mercenaries when Celts) do his trumpeting best, and offend not the Pierides.
The following translation of a Bardic poem, descriptive of one of their religious rites, identifies the superstition of the British Druids with the aboriginal Ophiolatreia, as expressed in the mysteries of Isis in Egypt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bardic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
