Legal and sources

Who runs Bard's Bield

Bard's Bield is built and run by Suman Saurav. Contact: suman@commsforacause.org. Bard's Bield is non-commercial, carries no advertising and is not affiliated with any of the archives or services it draws on.

Sources and copyright

The library is drawn from public-domain collections, mainly Project Gutenberg and Wikisource. Each tale names the collection it comes from. A handful of short retellings were written for Bard's Bield. Texts were split into passages and tagged automatically, so a theme or mood may sometimes be off. Project Gutenberg is a trademark of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which does not endorse Bard's Bield.

If you believe something here is not in the public domain where you live, write to suman@commsforacause.org and it will be reviewed and removed if needed.

The library’s cover paintings are newly made decorative artwork chosen by each tale’s genre. They are not illustrations from the source books or depictions of a particular culture.

Cultural care

Many old collections were recorded by outsiders and carry the biases of their era. Bard's Bield keeps them so the tales survive, credits the communities they come from, and welcomes corrections, context and better sources, especially from people of those traditions.

Artwork, music and voice

The painted scenes were created for Bard's Bield. In the reader, music plays through YouTube and Spotify players and belongs to its creators. The live stream plays music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. The storyteller uses the open-source Kokoro voice model, released under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Accessibility

Bard's Bield aims to be usable by keyboard and screen reader, with narration for those who prefer to listen. If something gets in your way, please say so; it will be treated as a bug.

Corrections

Spotted a mistake, a misattributed tradition or a better translation? Write to suman@commsforacause.org. See also terms of use and privacy.