The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 240
49. Anglo-Saxon Dance.—VIIJ. Century. This engraving represents two persons dancing* to the nuisicof the horn and the trumpet, and it does not appear to be acommon dance in which they are engaged ; on the contrary, theirattitudes are such as must have rendered it very difficult to per-form. On the… … 50. Anglo-Saxon Gleeman.—X. Century. , We here see a man throwing three balls and three knives al-ternately into the air, and catching- them one by one as they fall,but returning them again in a regular rotation. To give thegreater appearance of difficulty to this feat, it is accompaniedwith the…
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