Region: Pontus
Pontus Foreign lands' 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)
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)
Amarandos goes to war
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
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)
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
At the bridge, at the bridge,
at Trichas’ bridge.
A thousand builders hard at work,
and ten thousand apprentices.
They’d ...
Pontus Kotiora Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Byzantine Christmas carol (Pontus)
Άναρχος Θεός
Pontus Wedding song
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...
Pontus Acritic song
Digenes rescues his beloved
Akritas laboured down by the river,
Coming and going he laboured, tracing five furrows,
Coming and going he sowed nine meas...
Pontus Trabzon Distichs Easter song, Ritual song
Easter couplets
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 Philosophical song
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...
Pontus Acritic song
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...
Pontus Fable song (ballad)
O Marandon
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 Fable song (ballad), Sea and sailors chanty
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea, oh, my heart, my heart,
so distant, so far away, my heart is fit to burst.
A vessel richly fit...
Pontus Holy Week’s ritual song, Ritual song
The Lament of the Virgin (Pontos)
Holy Week lament
...
Do you not see that naked man, forlorn and sore afflicted,
who wears a garment steeped in blood,
a thorny crown upon h...
Pontus Love song, Pastoral song
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird,
to become a shepherdess, come, come I say!
to become a shepherde...