minnesinger

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But what ultimately emerges is a tremulous song in praise of the Midwest, a region that has long needed a minnesinger.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The dough at Stowe lies mostly in the snow," crooned a banjo-toting minnesinger before the inevitable open fireplace of that famed ski retreat in Vermont last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the space of a year or two, Bob Dylan, the prolific minnesinger from Minnesota, has refurbished the repertory of nearly every folk singer on record.

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Crosby is a sort of medical minnesinger, who comes to substitute while the old man takes a vacation.

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A minnesinger must be a knight wooing his lady-love, whose colors he wears at the tournaments, and for whose sake he undertakes a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav