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  • Glígman

    parasitus

    (cf. glíwere),
      Hpt. Gl. 504, 20.

  • Glígmanna yppe orcestra vel

    pulpitus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 36.

  • Suá micle méde . . . suá wé habbað ðæs hleahtres, ðonne wé hliehað glígmonna unnyttes cræftes. Wé herigað hira cræftas, and ðeáh nyllað hí habban

    sic eis virtutum sanctitas sicut stultis spectatoribus ludicrarum artium vanitas placet. Illi aurigarum et histrionum gesta favoribus efferunt, nec tamen tales esse desiderant,

      Past. 231, 7.

  • Þurh witige plegmen ł gleáwe glígmen

    per gymnosophistas,

      An. Ox. 39.

  • Swá hweorfað gleómen geond grunda fela . . . simle sumne gemétað gydda gleáwne,

      Víd. 136.
Etymology
[King Blæðgabreat . . . ne cuðe na mon swa muchel of song . . . gleomen him weoren deore, Laym. 7004. Þar was gleomenne song, þar was piping among, 5109.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “glíw-mann.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/50967.

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