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The stranger took it, and drew from it such music as made all heads turn toward him at once. Then he began to sing, sometimes by himself, and sometimes his comrades, "more Girviorum tripliciter canentes" joined their voices in a three-man-glee. In vain the minstrel, jealous for his own credit, tried to snatch the harp away.
The sturdy old 'Girvii, 'Gyrwas, men of the 'gyras' or marshes, who in Hereward's time sang their three-man glees, 'More Girviorum tripliciter canentes, had been crossed with the blood of Scandinavian Vikings in Canute's conquest; crossed again with English refugees from all quarters during the French conquest under William. After the St.
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