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  • This story first appeared in Fantasy Book magazine; it was later combined with the following story, "Dragon's Teeth," and stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Jennifer Roberson for a volume originally called Bardic Voices, later published by DAW as Spell Singers.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Well, last night Fion woke me and led me to a magical scene that I can only describe as Bardic in nature .... "

    Escape From Roksamur Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • My own unscholarly guess is that, for all the Bardic motifs, this is more Fletcher than Shakespeare.

    Cardenio - review 2011

  • Dr Williams was given the Bardic name of ap Aneuri, which he chose partly after a sixth century Welsh poet and partly after Aneurin Bevan, one of his personal heroes and the architect of the National Health Service.

    Pagans show up at Stonehenge on the wrong day « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • As Maxwell's footnotes make clear, this pointedly Scottish reading of the genre after Scott owes much to James K. Chandler's England in 1819 and Katie Trumpener's Bardic Nationalism--and, although it goes unmentioned, perhaps something to the work of Robert Crawford as well.

    The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 2010

  • About the Authors MERCEDES LACKEY is the author of the Heralds of Valdemar and Elemental Masters series from DAW books, the Bardic Voices (in collaboration), the SERRAted Edge, and Bedlam Bards series from Baen Books, and the Malt blood Chronicles from Tor Books, along with many other solo and collaborative works.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Scholars feed anonymous Elizabethan sonnets into computers, looking for telltale signs of Bardic word use.

    Doug Stewart: Why We Keep Looking for the Bard Doug Stewart 2010

  • She looked about her, at the luxuriant life of the heart of k'sheyna, at the incredible beauty of the flowering bushes and vines everywhere, the fluted, sculptured rocks surrounding the hot-spring-fed pool-Then her senses took in the things that did not fit in a scene from a Valdemaran fantasy or Bardic play.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • Our mutualised friend from the Guardian enters poetry's big race Bardic election fever has finally reached the hustings for the Oxford poetry professorship.

    Vietnam still sells, especially when coupled to old publishing practices 2010

  • As Maxwell's footnotes make clear, this pointedly Scottish reading of the genre after Scott owes much to James K. Chandler's England in 1819 and Katie Trumpener's Bardic Nationalism--and, although it goes unmentioned, perhaps something to the work of Robert Crawford as well.

    The Little Professor: 2010

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