Lord British sends the Avatar and three of his companions ( Sir Dupre the knight, Shamino the ranger and Iolo the bard ) to Serpent Isle in pursuit of Batlin.

Iolo Goch ( c. 1320 – c. 1398 ), ( meaning Iolo the Red in English ), was a medieval Welsh poet or bard who composed poems addressed to Owain Glyndŵr, among others.

The Welsh term bardd (" poet ", which is the source of the English word bard ) originally referred to the Welsh poets of the Middle Ages, who might be itinerant or attached to a noble household.

Other classes include thief (" steal " skill and high speed ), dancer ( ability to perform status-altering dances and equip ribbons, which protect against status ailments ), bard ( musical instruments as weapons and songs that alter statuses ), and scholar ( books as weapons and ' seeing ' enemy stats and properties ).

The album spawned two somewhat beatlesque airplay hits-Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe (" With a Face Like ...") and Peggy Brown, the latter being a cover version of a fellow Mysłowice rock band, with lyrics originally by the Irish " national bard " Turlough O ' Carolan ( in a translation by the Polish lyricist and translator Ernest Bryll ).

A common practice for six string guitar players of Russian romances and bard music is to retune their guitars using variations of the seven string tuning, such as: G '- B-D-g-b-d ' ( no bass string, also known as " Dobro open G "), D '- B-D-g-b-d ' ( no low G ), D '- G '- D-g-b-d ' ( no low B, the standard six string ' open G tuning ' used by bard Alexander Rozenbaum ), D '- G '- B-g-b-d ' ( no middle D, used by Bulat Okudzhava in his latter years when he adopted a six string ), and so on. it comes in many different sizes.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

# Finally ( 4. 13 ), a legend which Herodotus attributed to the Greek bard Aristeas, who claimed to have got himself into such a Bachanalian fury that he ran all the way northeast across Scythia and further.

A lost epic, Titanomachia, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.

It is not stated in the series whether the characters ( who are usually well-read ) are merely paraphrasing the bard for their own amusement, or if Shakespeare himself was telling stories that are reflections of Amber's history and future.

* Lute: an inept bard / minstrel / troubadour who can neither play, sing in tune nor rhyme properly, although Lute remains totally oblivious to everyone else's perception, and considers himself quite the talent.

Mangan was a true poète maudit, who threw himself into the role of bard, and even included translations of bardic poems in his publications.

While a pupil at Chigwell School, Essex, Williams taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the Cornish Gorseth while still in his teens, taking the bardic name Golvan (' Sparrow ').

Seth's full name is Seth Able Robinson and the character Seth Able the bard from LORD was named after himself.

To their astonishment, however, the bard raised himself up, and, smiling at their inexperienced efforts, pointed out how the ideas might be improved and the verses made to run in another and smoother form, at the same time giving an illustration in a few original measures of his own.

On the strength of three previous novels, Lipsyte has fashioned himself as America's bard of highly educated disgruntlement.

To do so, he manifested himself to a young bard named Joel, posing as the elderly priest Jedidiah, who espoused the wonders of Finder's vision.

Often referred to as " the bard of Salford ", he usually refers to himself on stage as " Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle ".

In addition to Bryusov, the most popular poets were Konstantin Bal ' mont, who believed in first inspiration and sometimes intentionally left his verse unrevised, and the pessimistic Fyodor Sologub, who referred to himself as the bard of death.

Glengarry considered himself the last genuine specimen of a Highland chief, always wore the Highland dress ( kilt or trews ) and in the style of his ancestors seldom travelled without being followed by his " tail ", armed servants in full Highland dress who had traditional duties such as carrying his sword and shield, standing sentinel, acting as bard and carrying him dry across streams.

The name " Merlin " derives from the Welsh Myrddin, the name of the bard Myrddin Wyllt, one of the chief sources for the later legendary figure.

" The Bard " by John Martin ( painter ) | John Martin: a romantic vision of a single Welsh bard escaping a massacre ordered by Edward I of England, intended to destroy Welsh culture

Secondly, in medieval Gaelic and Welsh society, a bard ( Scottish and Irish Gaelic ) or bardd ( Welsh ) was a professional poet, employed to compose eulogies for his lord ( see planxty ).

The ( Welsh ) Laws of Hywel Dda, originally compiled around 900 A. D, identify a bard as a member of a King's household.

The child did not die, but was rescued on a Welsh shore – near Aberdyfi according to most versions of the tale – by a prince named Elffin ap Gwyddno ; the reborn infant grew to became the legendary bard Taliesin.

* Dewi Morgan, a Welsh bard

While historically Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, well into the nineteenth century English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan from Brecknockshire ( 1622 – 1695 ), and John Dyer from Carmarthenshire ( 1699 – 1757 ).

Emrys James played Gower ( as a Welsh bard ) and Helicanus.

In the Welsh Gorsedd, a person may become an ovate or a bard by passing an examination in the Welsh language.

The college of Llantwit, known as the College or Seminary of Theodosius ( Cor Tewdws in Welsh ) or College of St. Illtyd, at its peak reputedly had seven halls, over 400 houses and over 2000 students, including seven sons of British princes, and scholars such as St. Patrick, St. Paul Aurelian, the bard Taliesin, Gildas the historian, Samson of Dol, Paulinus, Bishop of Leon, and St. David is believed to have spent some time there.

It is named after the 6th century Welsh bard Taliesin.

He appears in the narratives about the bard Taliesin and in the Welsh Triads, where he is often contrasted with the handsome Sanddef " Angel-Face ".

These were immortalised in the following Welsh rhyme by the bard John Evans ( 1826-1888 ), who was born in nearby Porthaethwy:

* Aneirin, a 7th Century Welsh bard

Trawsfynydd was the home of the Welsh bard Hedd Wyn, who died on the battlefields of Flanders during World War I, just before he was to receive the winning prize at the National Eisteddfod.

When Wright decided to construct a home in this valley, he chose the name of the Welsh bard Taliesin, whose name means " shining brow " or " radiant brow ".

The minor Welsh bard Bedo Brwynllys lived in Bronllys in the 15th century.

* Nairn, T ( 2006 ) Gordon Brown: ' bard of Britishness, Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs

There he ruminates on his former existence and the disaster that brought him low: the death of his lord Gwenddoleu, whom he served as bard.

At the poem's beginning, the bard describes a meeting with the ghost of a beheaded Campbell Jacobite who then tells him that the Clan will soon be punished for committing high treason against their lawful King, first being visited by the Ten Plagues of Egypt and then by another Great Flood upon their lands.

King Richard III visited Exeter in 1483 and in Shakespeare's Richard III, the bard makes him later recall a premonition of his death when he is shown the castle and confuses Rougemont with Richmond.