A lovely Old English (Anglo-Saxon) expression. The pleasure of listening to music and poetry. I must write something and call it Glee-Dream.
GLEO-DREAM
Dream meant “joy” or “pleasure” in Old English (so not “dream,” which was swefen). Gleo-dream literally means “glee-joy,” but it specifically referred to the feeling of pleasure that comes from listening to music or poetry. The sound of a musical instrument, incidentally, was sometimes called orgel-dream (literally “pride-pleasure”), while the art of playing an instrument was dreamcræft.
GLEO-DREAM
Dream meant “joy” or “pleasure” in Old English (so not “dream,” which was swefen). Gleo-dream literally means “glee-joy,” but it specifically referred to the feeling of pleasure that comes from listening to music or poetry. The sound of a musical instrument, incidentally, was sometimes called orgel-dream (literally “pride-pleasure”), while the art of playing an instrument was dreamcræft.
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