#just habging out in the forest for fun is a thoroughly modern thing (which I love and do a lot. just that it's not something people did.
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Do people use the term Bard as a way broader thing that it actually was (a culturally specific professionally employed poet to the gentry in medieval Gaelic or Welsh society) because the actual common historical English-language term for 'wandering singer' is 'minstrel', a word which in America has very racist connotations, or do they do it because they imagine that medieval Europe was D&Dland?
#also while I'm annoyed by a poll you'd definitely nlt be soending any time in the forest#the forest is dangerous and dark and the only people who soent anh amoubt of time in it were peoope who had to#like coal-burners and a few professional huntsment#just habging out in the forest for fun is a thoroughly modern thing (which I love and do a lot. just that it's not something people did.
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