Bard are known as "the Bard of Avon" (often simply "the Bard") and "the Bard of Bengal" respectively. The word is a Celtic loan word from Scottish Gaelic "bàrd", Irish "bard", Welsh "bardd". In 16th-century Scotland, it was a derogatory term for an itinerant musician; nonetheless it was later romanticised by Sir Walter Scott. 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). If the employer failed to pay the proper amount, the bard would then compose a satire (c.f. "fili", "fáith").
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