Editing Bard (section)

==Popular culture==
From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the [[fantasy]] genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the '[[Bard (Dungeons & Dragons)|Bard]]' class in [[Dungeons & Dragons]] and [[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Pathfinder]], ''Bard'' by [[Keith Taylor (author)|Keith Taylor]] (1981), ''[[Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish]]'' by [[Morgan Llywelyn]] (1984), in video games in fantasy settings such as ''[[The Bard's Tale (1985 video game)|The Bard's Tale]]'' (1985), and in modern literature and TV like [[The Witcher (TV series)|The Witcher]] books by [[Andrzej Sapkowski]] (1986–2013) show by [[Lauren Schmidt Hissrich]] (2019).

As of 2020, an online trend to cover modern songs using medieval style musical instruments and composition, including rewriting the lyrics in a medieval style, is known as [[bardcore]].

In 2023 [[Google]] released its [[AI]] [[chatbot]] [[Bard (chatbot)|Bard]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/03/21/google-releases-bard-ai-chatbot-amid-competition-with-chatgpt/?sh=a95acc532b7b|title=Google releases Bard AI chatbot amid competition with chatGPT|work=Forbes.com|access-date=2023-04-24}}</ref>