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 247
eby giving the Normans the signal ofbattle; and in the action it appears he lost his life. VII.—OTHER PERFORMANCES BY GLEEMEN. One part of the gleemans profession, as early as the tenthcentury, was, teaching animals to dance, to tumble, and to putthemselves into variety of attitudes, at the command… … 51. Anglo-Saxon Gleemens Bear Dance.—X. Century.This engraving is the copy of a curious though rude deli-neation, being little more than an outline, Avhich exhibits a spe-cimen of this pastime. The principal joculator appears in thefront, holding a knotted switch in one hand, and a line attachedto…
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