half-bardic

Updated: August 20, 2026

There is a total absence of all tender feeling, no trace of love, no well-marked religious idea, but only a vague and naturalistic mysticism, a survival of Druidic teaching, and a moral philosophy wholly expressed in Triads, similar to that taught in the half-bardic, half-Christian schools of St. Cadoc and St. Iltud.

Michel de Montaigne - Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian