Medieval entertainers

Usage examples of bards.

Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.

Two other statues held matching oval mirrors with intricately carved and gilt frames, reflecting each into the other, an endless procession of guards and Bards fading into unguessable distance.

Tem-Telek merely turned up the corners of his mouth briefly and indicated the Bards neglected soup with a small gesture.

The true lore of the bards, sorry to say, has always been a little beyond me.

Fflewddur, at first uneasy, was finally convinced the bear had no appetite for bards, and soon began snoring.

He was saddle deep in adventure once more, the Regent wanted to see him, and minstrels saluted him like one of the great grand bards of old!

Baron of Brightpennant panted out a fervent curse on all bards, hacked aside a sapling that was in his way, and grimly started searching.

If Sarth be our doom, let it be one the bards sing of with awe, a hundred summers hence!

For bards as for others, life remains a process of stumbling blindly between perils.

Archenomen ever learned that he and Alaire were Bards, it could be a catalyst for war.

The relics of ancient glory, including volumes of lore from the time of Cymrych Hugh, would keep the bards and scribes busy for years.

He had never had to think of violence, except the remote violence of the legends of which bards sang, but now he was fleeing from violence whose echoes he could still hear.

Meredydd had for the first time in his lonely life come to a true understanding of the affections and yearnings that bards wrote about, and the carnal knowledge they did not write about.

The chief officers of this treasury are masters of the ceremonies, roysters, heralds, bards, orators, flatterers, dancers, tailors, gamblers, seamstresses and the like.

Taliesin is one of the earliest Welsh bards whose works are still extant.