A Heavy Sigh
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Song
Akritas Goes Hunting
The Death of Digenis
Out hunting, on the way to the hunting grounds,
Akritas met Charon at a crossroads.
- Charon, what've you got against me th...
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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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Charon and the Brave Men
The Death of Digenis
My friends, what happened to all the brave men in the world?
They're not on the mountains and they're not in the passes.
Th...
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Close to Daybreak
Close to daybreak, dawn’s crack in the East,
the Morning Star aloft, first light near at hand.
The sun was a- telling, ‘dau...
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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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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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If I Die, Bury Me
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...
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Kítsos' Mother
Kitsos’ mother sat on the river bank
scolding the river.
Scolding the river and pelting it with stones.
‘River flow less, ...
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Marandon
Marandon has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed by...
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Samarina
Hey, you young klephts,
you sons of Samarina,
if you go up to the mountains, the Samarina way
[don’t fire off shots, don’t...
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The orphan maid is wed & Beloved stranger so far away
They stay with the bride for two days, for three,
Her dress they give her and her veil, but no wedding crown.1
Beloved st...
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Tricked by the Birds
Tricked I was, tricked by the birds,
tricked by the nightingales of spring.
They tricked me and told me I would never die.
...