minstrel: Bard/Barth/Etc. (was Re: Filks)

[Heather Rose Jones]

At 12:51 PM -0500 3/6/03, dglenn at radix.net wrote:
>Heather Rose Jones commented:
>>  I, personally, would hesitate to define what
>>  any of the words -- English, Welsh, or Gaelic -- "means" in anything
>>  short of a multi-page essay that took into account changes in usage
>>  over time and in various types of context.  But hey, that's just me.
>
>So have you already written that essay in the past and
>have an archived copy on the web somplace, or do we
>need to devise a suitable bribe to get you to write it?

I don't have anything currently existing that would be the full 
essay, although there are various bits and snippets lying around that 
go into the complexities of the question in more detail.  To write 
the _full_ essay, I'd have to do a bit more systematic collection of 
research on the various Irish and Scottish uses of the term.  I can 
do a pretty complete examination of Welsh usage, and have the 
resources currently to discuss Gaulish usage.  What I don't have is 
time.

Tangwystyl
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