gleeman

The old English names for one of this profession were gleeman, jogeler, and latterly minstrel; not to mention harper, &c.

Here the gleeman ceased rowing, and spoke to him in a low tone.

The Anglo-Saxon vocabularies interpret the Latin mimus by glig-mon, a gleeman.

Then Hagen, too, bethought him of the gleeman, whom bold Hildebrand had robbed of life.

"Methinks I have some remembrance of the lilt," remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings.

Thou art not fit to be called a gleeman beside the singers of Denmark.

There was no help for it; and commending courage with a significant look to his companion, the gleeman and Alfgar ascended.

And it was a mighty fight, and a good fight, and of it the scalds and the gleeman sang for many a day.

Why, there is a gleeman down the street this minute singing the deeds of Oswald and Elfrida.

The others are Fritz and Rudolph and Wiglaf, the gleeman, in a fantastic garb faded and tattered.