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

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

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"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.

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

To such a society the strongly realistic Carolingian epic had ceased to appeal: the tales of the Welsh and Breton bards, repeated by trouvère and jongleur, troubadour and minnesinger, came as a revelation.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon