gleeman

Example Sentences

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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

IX When this was seen by th' others, they took at once to flight; That same redoubted gleeman all curs'd with all their might.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

List to the valiant gleeman; he gives you good advice; To your quarters, knights of Kriemhild!

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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

From Northland Heroes by Holbrook, Florence

Where the clerk or the gleeman is in question, he is sure to add a personal element, and thus to remove the song from its true communal setting.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various