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 the light of the moon. His beloved beside him holds the nails in her kerchief: – Where are you going, where are you [...]
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 dead of night in the moonlight, his beloved at his side with the nails in her kerchief. - Where to, Marandon my love, [...]
Τώρα τα πουλιά ⬥ Now the birds, now the swallows, now the partridges, now the partridges are singing more and more: - Wake up, master, wake up, my good master, wake up and embrace my body, tall and straight as a cypress, with a white throat, and with breasts like [...]
Τώρα τα πουλιά ⬥ Now the birds, now the swallows, Now the partridges do not cease singing and saying: – Awake, my lord, awake, my good lord, Awake, embrace my cypress body, My white throat and my small breasts which are like lemons, Which are like cool water at the [...]
Η αρπαγή της κόρης του Λεβάντη από τον Διγενή ⬥ The lord of the East and the king of the West met to discuss joining their lines in marriage. When they came out of the council chamber, they invited everyone from East to West, everyone canopied by the sky and [...]
– Wait one moment, Digenis, and I’ll tell you what to do. If you understand what I tell you, go abduct the bride. Take this pathway, this narrow path, and it will lead you to a grassy meadow, where you’ll find a bushy olive tree. Dismount there, cut a thick [...]
Το κάστρο της Ωριάς ⬥ I've never seen a castle as fair as the Castle of the Beauty. It has silver gates and silver keys, I've never seen another castle like it. The Turks besieged it for twelve long years, for twelve years and thirteen months. [And a young Janissary, [...]
Εβράδυν παλιοβράδυν ⬥ Evening has fallen, the sun has set, And the fair Yannakos has gone to the Steep Mountain. Behind the Steep Mountain is a well, That is where Yannakos is, ah! Yannakos, Bound, killed, unrecognizable. – Yannakos, if you had a mother, if you had a sister, If [...]
Τέσσερα τζιαι τέσσερα ⬥ Four and four make eight, Four Palikari go to the wars. On their way they are hungry And they sit down to eat, but they are thirsty too. They look for a spring high up on the mountain, and they find a ravine a hundred fathoms [...]
Χήρα παιδίν εγέννησεν ⬥ A widow gives birth to a son, he is called Porphylis. In prison she bore him, in prison she raises him. At one year of age he wields she sword, at two the lance, At three and four he mounts on horseback, He mounts on horseback [...]
Του μικρού βλαχόπουλου ⬥ Young Kostantinos and brave Alexis and the young Vlach who fought in castles the three were eating and drinking and sweetly singing all together, and had their horses tied together to the same block of wood. Kostantinos' horse ate iron, Alexis' horse ate rocks and the [...]
Ο Τσάμαντας ⬥ Up at Saint Thodoros' chapel, at the church of Saint Kostantinos, there are twelve circles dancing and eighteen rings set up for wrestling. The people are dancing and saying and praying: - Christ forbid that Tsamandas come, pray make it that he does not show, for if [...]
Όντεν εδικονίζετο ο Κωσταντής ⬥ When Kostantis was begging in foreign lands, he walked the streets and crossed the narrows wearing his monk’s habit short, his sword appeared, his silver sword [in its golden scabbard. A princess spied it from high up in the palace. - That’s no monk and [...]
Ο Κωσταντάκης ο μικρός ⬥ Young Kostantakis married young, he married young and took a young wife, and he was young, too, when he was called up to war. - Mother, care for my wife, take care of my precious, may she have rabbit for lunch and partridge for dinner. [...]
Ο Κωσταντίνος ο μικρός ⬥ Young Kostantinos, young Konstantinos, his mother had him young and betrothed him young and he was young when he was called up to war. He saddled his steed in the night, he shod him in the dark, [he gave him silver horseshoes with golden studs [...]
