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minstrel

  1. Rivendell_librarian

    Are there hobbit minstrels?

    I read recently that minstrels were important in Anglo-Saxon England. A lyre was found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial. Bede reports that the poet Caedmon gave an account of villagers gathering to eat and drink in the evening and entertaining each other accompanied by a harp. There is also the...
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