gleeman

[ glee-muh n ]

/ ˈgli mən /

(in medieval times) an itinerant singer; minstrel.

Origin of gleeman

before 900; Middle English; Old English glēoman. See glee¹, -man

glee, glee club, gleed, gleeful, gleek, gleeman, gleenie, gleesome, gleet, gleety, gleg

The old English names for one of this profession were gleeman, jogeler, and latterly minstrel; not to mention harper, &c.

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I (of 3) |Thomas Percy
Here the gleeman ceased rowing, and spoke to him in a low tone.

Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune |A. D. Crake
The Anglo-Saxon vocabularies interpret the Latin mimus by glig-mon, a gleeman.

A History of Caricature and Grotesque |Thomas Wright
Then Hagen, too, bethought him of the gleeman, whom bold Hildebrand had robbed of life.

The Nibelungenlied |Unknown

"Methinks I have some remembrance of the lilt," remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings.

The White Company |Arthur Conan Doyle

gleeman

/ (ˈɡliːmən) /

obsolete a minstrel