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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 244
49. Anglo-Saxon Dance.—VIII. Century. This engraving represents two persons dancing to the musicof 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 difiicult 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 music…
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