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Gleemen's Dance.—IX. Century

Gleemen's Dance.—IX. Century.jpg Saxon Hawking—IX. Century.ThumbnailsGerman fiddle, ninth centurySaxon Hawking—IX. Century.ThumbnailsGerman fiddle, ninth centurySaxon Hawking—IX. Century.ThumbnailsGerman fiddle, ninth centurySaxon Hawking—IX. Century.ThumbnailsGerman fiddle, ninth centurySaxon Hawking—IX. Century.ThumbnailsGerman fiddle, ninth 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.