Definition of "gleeman" [glee•man]

• A medieval itinerant singer; a minstrel. (noun)

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• "Perhaps Cynewulf was a poet who lived as one of the household of some great lord, and wrote more at his ease than if he had been merely an itinerant singer, a "gleeman," who sang his songs as he went about."
• "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."
• "Folker he smote, so that on all sides the clasps flew to the walls of the hall from helmet and shield of the doughty gleeman."