Bard

A bard is a professional poet or storyteller who sings and writes poems about the history of a person's great deeds or adventures. This name came from the Gaelic/Celtic language meaning poet. They often traveled with these stories and shared them with different towns for money. A Bard comes up with true tales of an epic event that has happened in a person’s life. They are known to usually have a harp to set the story to music. Shakespeare was often called a bard, and not just any bard - his nickname was The Bard of Avon, or just The Bard. The reason Shakespeare was called this great bard was because he had a little bit of everything. He wrote love stories, a tragedies, and found a way to work action and humor into his tales. He is known as the greatest bard of all time and the unofficial national poet of England. Bards are known to have written about people both alive or satire and dead also known as a eulogy. Bards are gifted in the art of poetry they express a tale in amazing poems and songs. This is how people used to hear about history of the great heroes such as Robin Hood. These tales were told through songs and poems which is why they were so easy to remember and repeat, and bards went from town to town spreading these stories long before most people could read or afford the paper for books. A Bard is a great record keeper as well; we got much information of what it was like in the past from their poems that have remained circulating for years. These poets and singers were also, if you think about it, an early for of a newspaper. They would travel town from town sharing news of people and history of famous nobles or infamous great new heroes. By:Madelyn Rogge