Bard oral history committed to memory and transmitted by bards and filid. Bards facilitated the memorisation of such materials by the use of metre, rhyme and other formulaic poetic devices. One of the most notable bards in Irish Mythological was Amergin Glúingel, he was bard, druid and judge for the Milesians. In medieval Ireland, bards were one of two distinct groups of poets, the other being the "fili". According to the Early Irish law text on status, "Uraicecht Becc", bards were a lesser class of poets, not eligible for higher poetic roles as described above. However, it has also been argued
Bard-lès-Époisses the D4M south-west of Jeux-lès-Bard. Apart from some forest in the north the commune is almost entirely farmland. The "Ru d'Acier" stream flows through the east of the commune from south-west to north-east and continues to join the "Ruisseau de la Prée" north-east of Jeux-lès-Bard. For many centuries the commune was called "Bar". Bar was an annex of Torcy with its patron Saint Matthew. Attached to the diocese of Langres, the parish had 3 parts: Bar, Jeux (formerly "Jox" and "Jovum"), and a portion of Corrombles called the Rue de Bar. The parish had 300 communicants. The Lord was the