gleeman

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If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o.

From Time Magazine Archive

I, too, maiden, was the son of a gleeman who was the son of a gleeman, and song was my heritage even as it is thine.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

Then the mead-cup was passed, the gleeman sang, and there was joy in the hall.

From Northland Heroes by Holbrook, Florence

Because your scald or gleeman went With seven or nine-stringed instrument Upon his back,—must ours be bent?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The Norman trouv�re displaced the Saxon scop, or gleeman, introducing the Fabliau and the Romance.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various