<P> Bards (who are not the same as the Irish' filidh' or' fili') were those who sang the songs recalling the tribal warriors' deeds of bravery as well as the genealogies and family histories of the ruling strata among Celtic societies . The pre-Christian Celtic peoples recorded no written histories; however, Celtic peoples did maintain an intricate oral history committed to memory and transmitted by bards and filid . Bards facilitated the memorisation of such materials by the use of metre, rhyme and other formulaic poetic devices . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (April 2014) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (April 2014) </Td> </Tr> <P> In medieval Ireland, bards were one of two distinct groups of poets, the other being the fili . According to the Early Irish law text on status, Uraicecht Becc, bards were a lesser class of poets, not eligible for higher poetic roles as described above . However, it has also been argued that the distinction between filid (pl. of fili) and bards was a creation of Christian Ireland, and that the filid were more associated with the church . By the Early Modern Period, these names came to be used interchangeably . </P>

What influence did bards have on the evolution of literature