Gleemen

Then at night was the fire of pine logs high heaped, and we feasted while the scalds, as they call their gleemen, sang the deeds of the heroes of old. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Thrice his Grace had yawned at table, when his favorite gleemen sung, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Here should come the gleemen and jonglers, the minstrels, the mountebanks, the party-colored gipsies, the dark-eyed, nut-brown ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Countess of Sandport lent her cherished portative wind-organ and an ensemble of musicians to enhance the dignity of the feast of welcome and the coronation ceremony itself, while the gleemen of Lord Mosstor would provide earthier entertainment during the reception and grand banquet scheduled to wind up the celebration tomorrow. ❋ May, Julian (2003)

Those were two of the things Aiel did to those who came into the Waste uninvited; only gleemen, peddlers, and Tinkers had safe passage, though Aiel avoided the Tinkers as if they carried fever. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1993)

"I thought there were three kinds of people you Aiel let come out here in the Waste; peddlers, gleemen, and the Traveling People." ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1992)

"Peddlers and gleemen are welcome," Heirn replied curtly. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1992)

He knew Thom was up to something tricky — gleemen were always doing things that were impossible, like eating fire and pulling silk out of the air — but he did not see how Thom could do anything with him watching close. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1991)

The festivities for the Hunters had blended into the Feast of Teven, with its famed contests and prizes for gleemen. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1990)

There were almost as many Illuminators in the city as there were gleemen. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1990)

Tonight the gleemen entertained in the palaces and mansions of the city, where the great and mighty disported themselves, and the Hunters come from every nation to ride out and find, if not the Horn of Valere itself, at least immortality in song and story. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1990)

Except for peddlers and gleemen, Aiel divide the world in two. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1990)

"What is it," Talia asked the ceiling above her head, "what is it about would-be tyrants that makes them speak and posture like third-rate gleemen in a badly-written play?" ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)

First came a troop of gleemen, who danced to the music of trumpets and horns, and with them a pair of jugglers who, first with coloured balls, then with daggers or with anything those lords still sober threw to them, made dazzling patterns in the smoky air. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

The two kings threw money down, and the gleemen, scooping it up, bowed and went, still jigging and dancing. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

It is a noble old poem, however, and of great interest, for it shows us what the old Saxon gleemen sang at their feasts for the entertainment of their guests, as they sat about the blazing fires in the huge, rude halls, drinking their mead. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

There were harpers and pipers and gleemen with their tabors; and for forty days a feast was held with rich meats in plenty and the wine flowed like water. ❋ Various (N/A)

Minstrels, gleemen, poets, and skalds (a Scandinavian term for poets) took up these rich themes and elaborated them. ❋ Various (N/A)