Thus roving, with shapéd songs there wander The gleemen of the people through many lands.
In addition to the scop, who was more or less permanently attached to the royal court or hall of a noble, there was a craft of gleemen who roved from hall to hall.
S2] [Their own native gleemen or minstrels must be allowed to exist.
Every feat of arms or skilful stratagem inspired some new song or tale; and the gleemen were never idle, and were never unhonoured.
The gleemen and menestrels who sang the songs which had been made in honour of him were the best and surest recruiters for the army of the Lord of Brunn.
In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes.
Not only the gleemen sang, but the harp went round, and all who could did so.
The gleemen tuned their harps, and I and my comrade lit our torches from those already burning on the wall, and stood ready, for the king was coming.
I never knew a man easy while the gleemen sang his deeds, save Ina, who was used to it, and never listened; and I knew not where to look, though maybe more than half the folk present did not understand that I was the hero of the song.
Then was fighting such as the gleemen sing of, with the light of the red fire waxing and waning across the courtyard the while.
Join us, for sibbe are all gleemen and maidens whether they be skalds of the Norseman, bards of the Welsh, or scops or gleemen of the Saxon.
In burghs I am still safe, for gleemen and gleemaidens are welcomed everywhere.
Thanking him, the maiden swept the strings of the instrument and played with such rare skill that even the gleemen were forced to acknowledge her power.
Closer to the stalls, yet not so near as to detract from the business of the mart, some gleemen were exercising their art.
Gleemaidens as well as gleemen are in many places.
On one of the benches where sat the gleemen and harpers there lay the harp of Edwy.
Cupbearers there thronged, gleemen there sung; harps gan resound, the people was in joy.
But that day a something vexed him, that was clear to old and young: Thrice his Grace had yawned at table, when his favorite gleemen sung, Once the Queen would have consoled him, but he bade her hold her tongue.
The English gleemen usually sang to the harp, and this instrument was also in common use among persons who did not follow the profession of minstrels.
Footnote 142: No minstrels without doubt--a compliment to the poetical profession: there were no gleemen or minstrels in the infernal regions.
We learn from them that Násruddin had represented the conquest of Mien as a very easy task, and Kúblái may have in jest asked his gleemen if they would undertake it.
The art of the Anglo-Saxon gleemen and maidens under the Normans was represented by two classes of public entertainers, the minstrels and the jongleurs.
Along with the gleemen went the glee maidens, who were the dancing and acrobatic girls of the day.
The Saxon and the Danish gleemen followed the armies in the time of war, and had access to both the camps without the least molestation.
The gleemen of the Saxons imitated their predecessors, and attached themselves to the persons of princes and chieftains, and retained their favour by continual adulation.
I can learn the history of our forefathers as well from the songs and tales of the gleemen as from books.
When you come to see me I will have gleemen to sing the deeds of our fathers to you.
Those gleemenof Offa's court were skilful, and he had both Welsh and English harpers, who harped in rivalry.
After that she and the other ladies left the hall after the custom, and we sat on telling tales and listening to the gleemen and harpers, and taking each our turn in singing.
Ay, and was so yesterday," he says, for so the songs of his gleemen tell him night after night.
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