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Gleemen's Dance.—IX. Century

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Gleemen's Dance.—IX. Century.jpg German fiddle, ninth centuryThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.German fiddle, ninth centuryThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.German fiddle, ninth centuryThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.German fiddle, ninth centuryThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.German fiddle, ninth centuryThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.

Here, we find a young man dancing singly to the music of two flutes and a lyre; and the action attempted to be expressed by the artist is rather that of ease and elegancy of motion, than of leaping, or contorting of the body in a violent manner.