Hrothgar's court bard sings of the encounters at Finnsburg ( lines 1068 - 1159 ), and improvises the tale of Beowulf's exploits in a complimentary comparison of the Geatish visitor with Sigemund ( lines 871 - 892 ) ; ;

* The court bard in both epics sings of the creation of the world.

Critics have long taken as self-referential a passage in the Odyssey describing a blind bard, Demodocus, in the court of the Phaeacian king, who recounts stories of Troy to the shipwrecked Odysseus.

* Taliesin becomes court bard to King Brochfael of Powys ( approximate date ).

Another Taliesin poem, Echrys Ynys refers to Gwynedd as the " Land of Gwydion " while in the Ystoria Taliesin, the legendary bard claims to have been present at Gwydion's birth " before the court of Don ".

Elffin refused, claiming Taliesin was a better bard and his wife a more virtuous woman than anyone the King had in his court.

The bulk of this work praises King Urien of Rheged and his son Owain mab Urien, although several of the poems indicate that he also served as the court bard to King Brochfael Ysgithrog of Powys and his successor Cynan Garwyn, either before or during his time at Urien's court.

The idea that he was a bard at the court of King Arthur dates back at least to the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, perhaps a product of the 11th century.

But once introduced to the court of the warrior-chief, Taliesin became his foremost bard, followed him in his wars, and wrote of his victories.

To prove Elphin ’ s boast about his bard, Taliesin showed up at Maelgwn ’ s court.

Völsung is also mentioned as Wæls in the Old English epic Beowulf: a Danish bard at Hrothgar's court sings about him and his son Sigemund.

He is believed to have been a bard or ' court poet ' in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Old North or Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland.

These include The Gododdin, considered the earliest surviving verse from Scotland, which is attributed to the bard Aneirin, said to have been resident in Gododdin in the 6th century, and the Battle of Gwen Ystrad attributed to Taliesin, traditionally thought to be a bard at the court of Rheged in roughly the same period.

The event, when Guru Gobind Singh installed Adi Granth as the Guru of Sikhism, was recorded in a Bhatt Vahi ( a bard's scroll ) by an eyewitness, Narbud Singh, who was a bard at the Guru's court.

He lost his position at the royal court when he fell in love with the king's sister, and spent the rest of his life as an itinerant bard.

The Chola king having heard of this talented bard, summoned him to his court and honoured him with the title Kavi Chakravarthi or The Emperor of Poets.

However, Elffin's court bard Taliesin knew of Maelgwn's plan because he was a seer, and arranged for a servant to replace his patron's wife, to the ultimate embarrassment of his patron's opponent Maelgwn.

A makar () is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as royal court poet, although the term can be more generally applied.

Gwydion also served for a time as a court bard to the West Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

* Duval, Andre: A renowned bard once in the employ in Azalin's court, Duval now wanders the land as a unique form of lich, the result of a violent magical confrontation with his erstwhile host.

For example probably the most known German bard Walther von der Vogelweide ( 13ht century ) learnt his craft from Reinmar von Hagenau at the court in Vienna.

She is forced to perform a concert with Kendappa-Oh in front of the assembled court and sings herself to death in the thicker atmosphere for the sake of her sister.

In some cases, an appellant may successfully argue that the law under which the lower decision was rendered was unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, or may convince the higher court to order a new trial on the basis that evidence earlier sought was concealed or only recently discovered.

In the United States, because of the broad protections granted by the First Amendment, with extremely limited exceptions, unless the media outlet is a party to the case, a media outlet cannot be found in contempt of court for reporting about a case because a court cannot order the media in general not to report on a case or forbid it from reporting facts discovered publicly.

The bird had discovered a land in the east, exceedingly rich in gold, silver, and plants, whose capital was called Kitor and whose ruler was the Queen of Sheba, and the bird, on its own advice, was sent by Solomon to request the queen's immediate attendance at Solomon's court.

The secret court, from whose procedure the whole institution has acquired its evil reputation, was closed to all but the initiated, although these were so numerous as to secure quasi-publicity ; any one not a member on being discovered was instantly put to death, and the members present were bound under the same penalty not to disclose what took place.

More than 100 intimate letters between Harding and Mrs. Philips were discovered in the 1960s, but publication of the letters was enjoined by court order in Ohio until 2024.

The synagogue was originally discovered by the German historian Ludwig Ross, from the royal court of Otto.

To this was added the execution of the wife and daughter of the Emperor Diocletian, who had fled from the court of Licinius before being discovered at Thessalonica.

After captivating the Spanish court with tales and exaggerations of his voyage down the Amazon, Orellana, after nine months deliberation, obtained a commission to conquer the regions he had discovered.

BA settled out of court when its lawyers discovered the lengths to which the company had gone in trying to kill off Virgin.

The commission discovered during its investigation that indigent defendants in Greene County were routinely pled guilty by judges without the presence of counsel and sometimes without even being present in court to make their pleas, violations of the Sixth Amendment.

For example, it was claimed that the phrase appeared in a 1790 court record from Sumner County, Tennessee, discovered in 1859 by a Tennessee historian named Albigence Waldo Putnam, in which Andrew Jackson apparently said " proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for an uncalled good, which was O. K .".

The court investigated many facets of his waiver and discovered that Mr. Garibay was missing all of those items that they were looking for.

* An event where the imperial court demoted an official because it was discovered that he had assembled a large number of female entertainers here in a dwelling that was not his home.

Republicans quickly discovered the court packing provision and targeted the bill.

When the disgruntled purchasers considered suing the Bowies, they discovered that the documents in the case had been removed from the court ; left without evidence, they declined to pursue a case.

Upon returning home, he discovered he was summoned to court for unpaid debts, which he still could not pay because he was not paid for military service.

This was the background to the famous Roos debate case: John Manners, Lord Roos had obtained a separation from bed and board from his wife in 1663, after he discovered she was committing adultery, and he had also been granted a divorce by an ecclesiastical court and had Lady Roos ' children declared illegitimate.

Whilst in the Netherlands, he " discovered " Antonis Mor and introduced him to the Madrid court, and he also patronised Giambologna and arranged his first visit to Italy.

The short document was discovered in 1772 in the Bavarian State Library, Munich by Louis XV's ambassador to the Saxon court, Comte Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay.

If there was a circuit of walls surrounding the inner court that pre-dated the current outer walls, no trace of it has been discovered.

According to court papers, he discovered in 1841 that she was unfaithful to him but remained with her until 1850.

Testimony was, initially, a prose retelling of stories that Reznikoff had discovered while working on court records.

* 1982: Marriott threatens to take the Riese family, a franchisee, to court when they discovered the Rieses were reserving space for Häagen Dazs and Godfather's Pizza in a property slotted for a Times Square Roy Rogers restaurant.