College where Achebe taught

Usage examples of bard.

On arriving within gunshot of the fort he ordered us to quicken our pace to gain a little bridle-path on the left, leading to the summit of Mont Albaredo, and turning the town and fort of Bard.

The few times it became necessary for a bard to ride, younger bards, those closest to their lives before the bardic Hall, were invariably chosen.

The ways of Barding are many, but all are important in the life of this land, and all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

But elsewhere there are other forces at work that blacken the names of Bards and the arts of Barding, sowing lies to plant suspicion where once was trust, and hatred where once was love.

Bards, perhaps about half of them, come from families in which Barding has never been knownI am one of thoseothers do not.

Maerad had been about to ask him why his Barding had led him to search out the Dark.

Maerad and Cadvan agreed to keep quiet about Barding, and Maerad had no lessons the next nightfall.

Maninae was unusual in that he was both a King and a Bard, although in him the Barding was not strong and he forswore Barding when he became King.

The unity of Edil-Amarandh was a result of the influence of Barding, rather than any enforcement under Kings.

This was because of the dual authorities of Barding and ruling authorities, both of which shared governance of their various peoples, and which by their complex nature mitigated against absolute rule.

But more than that, she seemed to have an innate knowledge of Barding, which her teachers merely had to reawaken.

Schools, did not remember the broader patterns of responsibilities and kinship that operated in Barding households, and it struck her for the first time.

Although Lyla was not a Bard, her father had taught her many Barding skills: she was formidably well readespecially when compared to Maerad, who had hardly read any books at alland knew most of the great lays by heart.

Then along came spring and the barding and wandering season, and everything indoors began looking unspeakably dreary, and everything outdoors began somehow pulling at me, and next thing I knew I was on my way.

At an early age, he completed his training at a renowned barding college and graduated with highest honors.