Un bardo, en la historia antigua de Europa, era la persona encargada de transmitir las historias, las leyendas y poemas de forma oral además de cantar la historia de sus pueblos en largos poemas recitativos.

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In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker and music composer, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Originally a specific, lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period the term "bard" acquired generic meanings of an author or minstrel, especially a famous one. For example, playwright William Shakespeare, and composer of devotional poetry and songs Rabindranth Tagore, are known as "the Bard of Avon" and "the Bard of Bengal" respectively.

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