Hereric remembered the suspicions of the gleeman after the death of King Ella.
The gleeman is to be a priest of Woden," said Porlor to his friend, "to whom it is not permitted to carry arms.
After a pause the gleeman said almost in a whisper, "I know the spell of Balder's horse that you used for young Oswith.
They remembered how often Coifi had sung of the Geatas and their exploits; and as they thought of the old hall at home, where the gleeman was wont to recite his tales, their eyes filled with tears.
Then all eyes turned to the famousgleeman who had arrived in the Atheling's train from York.
They remembered the gleeman of their boyhood, he who had taught them the glorious song of Beowulf and all the northern lore, they remembered that Alca had acquitted him, and that his latest treason was atoned for by full confession.
The gleeman was an adept in the Teutonic religious beliefs, and was versed in all the tales and traditions of the mythology of his people.
The scop was an originator of poetry, the gleeman more often a mere repeater, although this distinction in the use of the terms was not observed in later times.
The gleeman ends this song with two thoughts characteristic of the poets of the Saxon race.
The poem is an account of the wanderings of a gleeman over a great part of Europe.
Suppose we compare Taliesin, as Mr. Nash invites us, with the gleeman of the Anglo-Saxon Traveller's Song.
We may compare these statements of the universal presence of the wonder-working magician with those of the gleeman who recites the Anglo-Saxon metrical tale called the Traveller's Song.
Gleeman continued to be the name given to a minstrel both in England and Scotland almost as long as this order of men continued.
All these savour only of a northern origin, and the whole piece is exactly such a performance as one would expect from a gleeman or minstrel of the north of England, who had derived his art and his ideas from his scaldic predecessors there.
The musical effect was heightened by the harp with which the gleemanaccompanied his singing.
The fight lasts five days, but the fragment ends before we learn the outcome: The same fight is celebrated by Hrothgar's gleeman at the feast in Heorot, after the slaying of Grendel.
The gleeman took a loaf and some strips of cold fried bacon out of his wallet and laid them upon the ground.
But meanwhile the friars nailed the gleeman to his cross, and set it upright in the hole, and shovelled the earth in at the foot, and trampled it level and hard.
It is a sapphire, and of great worth," said thegleeman examining it.
During a momentary lull the old gleeman struck his harp, and together he and his grandchild lifted up their voices in song.
The gleeman thrust them aside contemptuously with his foot.
His brow darkened ominously as Edwy the gleemancame forward.
I am innocent both in word and deed of this thing of which the gleeman accuses me.
I, too, maiden, was the son of a gleeman who was the son of a gleeman, and song was my heritage even as it is thine.
Edward," spoke the maiden quickly, "seest thou not that the gleemanis old?
Be of good heart, Ethelfleda," he cried; "here comes a gleemanand his daughter.
She reeled, and would have fallen had not the gleemancaught her.
In sooth, the tricks the gleeman gives are good also.
Thinkest, then, that Alfred will not give shelter and food to a gleeman and maiden?
My lords," cried the gleeman who was plainly agitated, "I take oath by all the saints that I did depose only that which I knew.
Then did my lord call for more, and the maiden asked for my harp, but, being unwilling that the sunbeam of the gleeman should go from my hands, I loaned it not.
Brother," said Wulfhere to him, more in sorrow than in anger, "I knew not before that a gleeman would deal with another as a pagan might.
They bear evidence of transmission, with varying details, from gleeman to gleeman, till they were finally carried over to England and there edited, often with discordant interpolations and modifications, by Christian scribes.
The Finn saga is at least as old as the Beowulf poem, since the gleeman at Hrothgar's banquet makes it his theme.
Then Sir Irnfried dealt the valiant gleeman such a blow that his coat of mail burst open and his breastplate was enveloped with a bright red flame.
He spake: "The bold gleeman doth advise you right, ye men of Kriemhild, ye should hie you to your lodgings.
Hagen then spied a gleemansitting at King Etzel's board.
This the bold gleeman repaid with might; he smote Wolfhart, so that the sparks flew wide.
In its village-moots lay our Parliament; in the gleeman of its village-feasts our Chaucer and our Shakspere; in the pirate-bark stealing from creek to creek our Drakes and our Nelsons.
Queen or Eorl's wife with a train of maidens bore ale-bowl or mead-bowl round the hall from the high settle of King or Ealdorman in the midst to the mead benches ranged around its walls, while the gleeman sang the hero-songs of his race.
And when the gleeman finished his lengthy flight of music and poesy, they applauded him till the roof rang again.
A general laugh followed this sally at the dentist's expense, in the midst of which the gleeman placed his battered harp upon his knee, and began to pick out a melody upon the frayed strings.
The tooth-drawer and the gleeman called for a cup of small ale apiece, and started off together for Ringwood fair, the old jongleur looking very yellow in the eye and swollen in the face after his overnight potations.
The others, however, drew closer, leaving the place of honor to the right of the gleeman to the free-handed new-comer.
XLIV Upon the valiant gleeman bold Irnfried rush'd amain, But at his hand destruction was all that he could gain.
LXXI Just then redoubted Hagan upon thegleeman thought, Whom the good knight Sir Hildebrand so late to death had brought.
That stroke the forceful gleeman repaid with such a blow, As sent the sturdy Wolfhart tottering to and fro.
Before the hall yet sleepless stood the gleeman wight, And leaning on his buckler, with Hagan by his side, Look'd out, what further mischief might from the Huns betide.
The valiantgleeman Folker agreed with them to ride.
I know not why this gleeman should spite us o'er the rest; Never had I for certain so troublesome a guest.
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.
No longer does the gleemanstrike the harp and fill the hall with music.
Then the mead-cup was passed, the gleeman sang, and there was joy in the hall.
Thou art not fit to be called a gleeman beside the singers of Denmark.
And this song did Gyso the Gleeman sing by command of Edward the King, the son of Alfred, that the name and the deeds of Wulnoth might not perish, but be remembered by all men.
And it was a mighty fight, and a good fight, and of it the scalds and the gleeman sang for many a day.
And that night the Saxon gleeman was missing from the camp of the Danes; and when none could find him, the rumor went abroad that he had been no gleeman, but a spy amongst them; and that did but trouble them the more.
Then when the chief was told, he commanded that the gleeman be brought before him, and made to sing against his singers; and Alfred was taken to the hall where the holdas sat.
And truly, the song might have ended when it was love time and peace time, and when he and Edgiva the Beautiful were happy, but that there are other things to tell; or else how happened it that Gyso the Gleeman ever sang this song?
And Edward became king, and, that the name and the fame of Wulnoth might not be forgotten, he ordered that Gyso his gleeman should make this song.
And near to doing this they were in Angleland and, indeed, they would have done it but for one man, who was strong enough and patient enough to resist them; and of that man Gyso the Gleeman speaks in his song of Wulnoth.
A gleeman or juggler, attired similarly to the fiddler.
A Saxon horn-blower, attired similarly to the fiddler and gleeman (Figs.
The gleeman pressed it sharply, and a hidden door sprang open, revealing a winding staircase excavated in the solid wall.
At this moment they heard the rapid splash of a boat, manned by many rowers, behind, and a voice shouted aloud to the men on board the ship they had left: "Hast seen a boat with a gleeman and harp bearer?
From the 'Great Dragon'--a poor gleeman and his attendant to his home on the shore.
Here thegleeman ceased rowing, and spoke to him in a low tone.
Thus pressed, the gleeman took his harp and sang an old Scandinavian song of the first sea king who invaded England, Ragnar Lodbrok.
There was no help for it; and commending courage with a significant look to his companion, the gleeman and Alfgar ascended.
It was wonderful with what energetic force and success the gleeman pulled until they had cleared the mist, and saw that they were in the red light of dawn, in the midst of the Solent.
But the trees the gleeman planted, Through the changes, changeless stand; As the marble calm of Tadmor Mocks the desert's shifting sand.
One long century hath been numbered, And another half-way told, Since the rustic Irish gleeman Broke for them the virgin mould.
This lord he had a daughter fair, Beloved of old and young, And nightly round the shealing-fires Of her the gleeman sung.
The gleemansang whilom {The heroes all rejoice together.
Yet already in the hayfields Dane and Anglian wrought together, and the townsmen stood on Colchester Hill beside the Danish warriors, listening while gleeman and scald sang in rivalry to please both.
There was a wandering gleeman who came into the marketplace on the hill top, and we stood and listened to him.
And when that was done I sang the song of Bosham bell, with the ending that the gleeman on Colchester Hill had made.
Whereat the people marvelled, and the gleemanfared well.
The first is a stanza from "Widsith," the chant of a wandering gleeman or minstrel; and for comparison we place beside it Andrew Lang's modern version.
So with picturesque words thegleeman thrills his hearers with a vivid picture of a Viking's sea-burial.
At a sign from the chief a gleeman rises and strikes a single clear note from his harp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gleeman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
