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A Dance With Dragons
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The boy had dreamed of a day when bards would sing of his deeds and pretty girls would kiss him When I am grown I will be the King-Beyond-the-Wall, Lump had promised himself.†
p. 9.5
"That was butchery, not battle," the warrior bard Denzo D'han had been heard to declare afterward.†
p. 356.6
"Let us be frank," said Denzo D'han, the warrior bard.†
p. 362.2
The musicians began to play again, and the bard Abel began to sing "Two Hearts That Beat as One."†
p. 537.6
He calls himself a bard.†
p. 540.7
Bard or pander, Abel's voice was passable, his playing fair.†
p. 540.9
Lord Ramsay commanded Abel to give them a marching song in honor of Stannis trudging through the snows, so the bard took up his lute again, whilst one of his washerwomen coaxed a sword from Sour Alyn and mimed Stannis slashing at the snowflakes.†
p. 596.1
The bard sang "Iron Lances," then "The Winter Maid."†
p. 668.6
Lord Bolton knows, and Ramsay, but the rest are blind, even this bloody bard with his sly smiles.†
p. 738.1
He turned his head, his pale cold eyes searching the hall until they found the bard Abel beside Theon.†
p. 741.1 *
Perhaps he was just some common man who wanted bards to sing of him.†
p. 763.7
Osney Kettleblack and the Blue Bard are here, beneath the Sept. The Redwyne twins have been declared innocent, and Hamish the Harper has died.†
p. 797.2
Afterward some bard will make a stirring song about you, no doubt, and we shall have a more prudent lord commander.†
p. 986.5

Definitions:

(1) (bard as in: written by the bard)
someone who composes and recites or sings poems about important events and people; or (as a proper noun) Shakespeare

Shakespeare is sometimes called the Bard of Avon or just the Bard.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)