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Subject: Re: minstrel: Bardic, Period, and assorted rantings...
To: rdeaver@swbell.net (Rex Deaver)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:16:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981010064051.00c47c68@mail.swbell.net> from "Rex Deaver" at Oct 10, 98 06:40:51 am
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> Which *most* people use as indicator that minstrelsy was over...the schools
> closed, the guilds moribund.  What was left was not minstrels but
> "vagabonds" and "sturdy beggars".

Last time _I_ checked, _my_ persona was Elizabethan. But I digress.

> >The OED says this about minstrel:
> 
> O, this is going to be too easy, milord.  The OED is a tertiary source at
> best. 

No, it's a secondary source at best, because the online version
includes lots of usage examples. If you like I could post them.  But
you still have an incredibly hard job if you want to prove that a
minstrel would have to compose in order to be considered a master of
his art.

-- gb


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