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

Then did my lord call for more, and the maiden asked for my harp, but, being unwilling that the sunbeam of the gleeman should go from my hands, I loaned it not.

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

Strong is the Knight of Trony, and oft in battle tried, But stronger yet the warrior who sits him there beside, Folker, the valiant gleeman; he is a dangerous man.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

To rise would now become us," the gleeman straight replied, "She is a king's companion, and nobly born beside.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Bard, scald, minstrel, gleeman, with their heroic rhymes and long metrical romances, gave way in the evolution of song and harmony to the ballad-monger with his licence.

From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Green, Percy B.