bardic

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to bards.

   To this being Taliesin gives a magic vase, the edges of which are adorned with pearl, and it contains the wondrous water of bardic genius and of universal knowledge.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 431

   1 more example

   In this questionary God is described as the life of ab Hywel Swrdwal, a poet who flourished about 1450, a good deal of insight is given into the Bardic philosophy of existence.

   1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 180

plural bardics

1. A bardic circle or competition: a gathering or contest at which stories, poems, and/or songs are recited.

   Laureans were as crazy for baths as they were for bardics.

   2015, Deborah Ross, Northlight, →ISBN, page 9

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   [...] especially at Samhain, Yule, and Oimelc/Imbolg/Brigantia, we'd gather everyone into the living room around the fireplace and present our ritual enactments, hold our bardics, play music, dance, etc.—all before the great altar.

   2006, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, Creating Circles and Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons and Reasons, →ISBN

   [...] in the bucolic bardics of BJ, whose eclogues insisted on rhyme [...]

   2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages, →ISBN