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

The reader need hardly be reminded that the minstrel of the middle ages was commonly jester, gleeman and story-teller all in one and in these several capacities was allowed the utmost license of speech.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

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

The accomplishments and social position of the gleeman seem to have been as varied as those of the Proven�al “joglar.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

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