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Title: Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
Subjects: Sports Games
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. (and 7 more)
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BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. feats of activity now called vaulting and tumbling; and such exertionsoften formed part of the dances that were publicly exhibited by thegleemen and the minstrels; for which reason, the Anglo-Saxon writersfrequently used the terms of leaping and tumbling for dancing. Boththe phrases occur in the Saxon versions of St. Marks Gospel; where itis said of the daughter of Herodias, that she vaulted, or tumbled,1instead of danced before king Herod.6 These interpretations of theSacred Text might easily arise from a misconception of the translators,who, supposing that no common dancing could have attracted the at-tention of the monarch so potently, or extorted from him the promiseof a reward so extensive as that they found stated in the record, there-fore referred the performance to some wonderful displayments of acti-vity, resembling those themselves might have seen exhibited by theglee-maidens, on occasions of solemnity, in the courts of the Saxon po-tentat

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