minnesinger

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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.

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

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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.

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The grudge of Germany against the papal court never found a more eloquent expression than in the verses of its greatest minnesinger, Walther von der Vogelweide.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey