The figure of the bard in ancient Greece signifies as a medium between mortals and immortals. Accordingly, bards are wandering rhapsodes or minstrel poets who compose and recite verses that celebrate legendary exploits of heroes; concerns with the future and the past; and the genealogy of the race of the gods. Bardic poetry are thus songs of heroic epics that carry the message of human morality and the nature of humanity “with the visions of the cosmos or history or morality” to implicate “a larger conceptual system within which to orient the family” (Stehle, Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece). It is through this ‘oral poetry’ in the figure of the bard that the Greek oral tradition and storytelling serve as the foundation to classical antiquity in the Roman Empire, which launched many Renaissance studies in search of classical antiquity for the building blocks of many civilizations. Therefore, it would be very significant that the two most famous bards be mentioned so that their names will continue to be remembered for all time.
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- ich seh da eigentlich schon die Post im Spiel: wo man sich in unseren Breiten früher einen Kurier schickte, schicken sich diese Leute offenbar Barden, weil die sowieso viel rumkamen (ganz in Kims Sinne). In dem Fall wäre mein Vorschlag im Stile von "wie üblich mit der Bardenpost" oder "per Barde, wie üblich"
- ausgenommen aber den Fall, dass das ausdrücklich geographischen Bezug hat. Da würde ich dann (in Anlehnung an den Ponyexpress) "die alte Wegstrecke des Bardenexpress'" vorschlagen...

don't know if the 'mail' is dispensable for the context...I like it better without