A Heavy Sigh
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A Trader Made His Way
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
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An Eagle Soared
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...
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As Akritas Was Ploughing
The Abduction of Akritas’ Wife
As Akritas was ploughing near the river,
back and forth he went and ploughed five furrows a day,
back and forth he went and...
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As Long as the Shore
The Maid Slain by Her Brothers
As long as the shore,
as long as the shore and as wide as the sea,
that’s the span of the yarn
a maid had laid out in her ...
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Easter Couplets
Easter Dance
Easter has come round again, throw out the koukouràs1
and put a red egg laid this year upon the ikon stand2.
Glad returns o...
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Evyenoula
Young Evyenoula, comely lass, the lass who married early
and boastfully was wont to say that Charon would not get her
becau...
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Forty Stonemasons
Arta’s Bridge
A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers
were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta.
The whol...
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Little Apple Tree Perched on the Brink
Little apple tree perched there on the brink,
perched on the brink weighed down with apples,
how I want your apples but fea...
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Marandon
The Evil Mother-In-Law
Word came calling Marandon up to fight.
He forged horseshoes out of silver and nails out of gold
and shoed his horse in the...
