gleeman

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

Here the gleeman ceased rowing, and spoke to him in a low tone.

The Anglo-Saxon vocabularies interpret the Latin mimus by glig-mon, a gleeman.

Then Hagen, too, bethought him of the gleeman, whom bold Hildebrand had robbed of life.