Encomiasticon, a se lingua Norvegica (quæ tum his regnis communis) compositum,
regi dicat; ac pro eo, duas marcas auri puri (pondus marcæ... 8 uncias æquabat)
honorarii loco retulit."-- Arngr. Jon. Rer. Islandic. lib. ii. p. 129.
See more of Egill, in the "Five Pieces of Runic Poetry," p. 45, whose poem
(there translated) is the most ancient piece all in rhyme that is, I conceive, now to be
found in any European language, except Latin.-- See Egill's Islandic original, printed
at the end of the English version in the said Five Pieces, &c.
(P)If the Saxons had not been accustomed to have Minstrels of their own... and to
show favour and respect to the Danish Scalds,] if this had not been the case, we may
rest assured, at least, that the stories given in the text could never have been recorded
by writers who lived so near the Anglo-Saxon times as Malmesbury and Ingulphus,
who, though they might be deceived as to particular facts, could not be so as to the
general manners and customs which prevailed so near their own times among their
ancestors.
(Q)In Domesday Book, &c.] Extract. ex Libro Domesday: et vide Anstis Ord. Gart. ii.
304.
Glowesterscire.
Fol. 162. Col.1.Berdic Joculator Regis habit iii billas, et ibi v. car. nil redd.
That Joculator is properly a Minstrel, might be inferred from the two
foregoing passages of Geoffrey of Monmouth (v. note K), where the word is used as
equivalent to Citharista in one place, and to Cantor in the other: this union forms the
precise idea of the character.
But more positive proofs have already been offered -- See also Du Cange's
Gloss. vol. iii. c. 1543. "JOGULATOR proJoculator. Consilium Masil. an. 1381.
Nullus Ministreys, Jogulator, audeat pinsare vel sonare instrumentum cujuscumque
generis," &c., &c.
As the Minstrel was termed in FrenchJongleurandJugleur, so he was called
in SpanishJutglarandJuglar. "Tenemos canciones y versos para recitar mui antiquos
y memorias ciertas de nosJuglares, que assistian en los banquetes, como los que pinta
Homero."-- Prolog. a las Comed. de Cervantes, 1749, 4to.
"El anno 1328, en las siestas de la Coronacion del Rey, Don Alonso el IV. de
Aragon,... [20] elJuglar Ramasetcanto una Villanesca de la Composition del...
infante [Don Pedro]: y otro Juglar, llamado Novellet, recito y represento en voz y sin
canter mas de 600 versos, que hizo el Infante en el metro que llamaban Rima
Vulgar."-- Ibid.
"Los Trobadores inventaron la Gaya Ciencia... estos Trobadores eran assi
todos de la primera Nobleza.-- Es verdad, quem ya entonces se havian entrometido
entre las diversiones Cortesanos, los Cantadores, los Cantores, losJuglares, los
Truanes, y los Bufones."--Ibid.
In England, the King's Juglar continued to have an establishment in the royal
household down to the reign of Henry VIII. [Vide note (CC).] But in what sense the
title was there applied does not appear. In Barklay'sEgloges, written circ. 1514,
Juglars and Pipers are mentioned together. Egl. iv.-- Vide T. Warton's Hist. ii. 254.