Τηλλυρκώτισσα ⬥ You are a bright star, bright and small amidst the seven planets, the words you've said enslaved my heart. They rushed and told this crazy lass that I'm to go away, go to foreign lands and she's cast a spell upon the sea, the gusts of wind were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Κύπρος) ⬥ O gentlefolk, pay heed to me, and hear the Mother’s dirge, hear how she mourns her only child upon the yonder Cross. Take note of tidings dark as night, a day that’s drear and sobre, today has sore afflicted me, and left me deeply [...]
Τρεις καλο(γ)έροι Κρητικοί ⬥ There were three monks and hailed from Crete and three from Ághion Óros1, and they prepared a bark for sea; while chanting ‘Christ is risen!’ and ‘Kyrie, eléison’, they readied her for Kríti2. Their sailor lad lay gravely ill up forrard in the foc’s’le. No mother [...]
