Region: Pontus
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Pontus Immigration Song, Wedding Song
A Cretan Ship
- A Cretan ship, nor large nor small,
just two and forty cubits long,
brought me to strange and unknown lands.
- O alien, ...
Pontus Acritic Song
Akritas Goes Hunting (The Death of Digenis)
Ακρίτας πάει και σο κυνήγ'
Out hunting, on the way to the hunting grounds,
Akritas met Charon at a crossroads.
- Charon, what've you got against me th...
Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Acritic Song
Amarandos Goes to War (Marandon)
Ο Μάραντον
Amarandos has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed b...
Pontus Acritic Song
An Eagle Soared
Αϊτέντς επαραπέτανεν
An eagle soared high in the sky, high in the heavens
with its bloody red jaws and its soot black crown
and clutching a brav...
Pontus Acritic Song
As Akritas Was Ploughing (The Abduction of Akritas’ Wife)
Ακρίτας όνταν έλαμνεν
As Akritas was ploughing near the river,
back and forth he went and ploughed five furrows a day,
back and forth he went and...
Pontus Fable Song (Ballad)
At Trichas’ Bridge
Σην γέφυραν, σην γέφυραν (Της Τρίχας το γεφύρι)
At the bridge, at the bridge,
at Trichas’ bridge.
A thousand builders hard at work,
and ten thousand apprentices.
They’d ...
Pontus Wedding Song
Close to Daybreak
Σιμά σα ξημερώματα
Close to daybreak, dawn’s crack in the East,
the Morning Star aloft, first light near at hand.
The sun was a- telling, ‘dau...
Pontus Acritic Song
Digenes Rescues His Beloved
Ακρίτας όνταν έλαμνεν
Akritas laboured down by the river,
Coming and going he laboured, tracing five furrows,
Coming and going he sowed nine meas...
Pontus Trabzon Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Easter Couplets (Easter Dance)
Πασχαλιάτικα δίστιχα
Easter has come round again, throw out the koukouràs1
and put a red egg laid this year upon the ikon stand2.
Glad returns o...
Pontus Eskikıran Philosophical Song
If I Die, Bury Me
Αν αποθάνω, θάψον με
If I die, bury me on a tall mountain
so I can hear the shepherd’s whistle
and the pipe’s sweet sound,
so I can hear the sh...
Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Acritic Song
Marandon
Ο Μάραντον
Marandon has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed by...
Pontus Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Marandon (The Evil Mother-In-Law)
Ο Μάραντον
Word came calling Marandon up to fight.
He forged horseshoes out of silver and nails out of gold
and shoed his horse in the...