Category: Acritic song
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Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Acritic song
A nun with child (The song of Porfyris)
A nun swelled up with child and bore a manly boy.
Within a month he was carrying a sword, within a year a musket
and at thr...
Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic song
A widow bore a child (The Song of Porfyris)
Χήρα παιδίν εγέννησε
Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic song
A widow bore a child (The Song of Porfyris)
A widow bore a child and called him Prosfylis,
she bore him behind bars, she suckled him in a prison.
Aged one, he took up ...
Thrace Acritic song, Wedding song
A young and gallant soldier
A young and gallant soldier Sought a citadel, a citadel.
He sought a citadel, a village to stop at. He found none, no citade...
Thrace Evros, Paliouri Acritic song
A young man (A soldier and a tree)
A young man, a fine young lad
went off in search of a castle, Greek lass of mine.
And though he found no castles and no vil...
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 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...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Andronicos and the princess
Famed Andronikos, who was born and raised in riches,
started school on the 6th of the month and could read by the 7th.
By t...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Andrónikos and his black steed
The nobles sit to eat and drink around a marble table,
a marble and a silver table, around a golden table,
and all do only ...
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...
Eastern Aegean Lemnos Acritic song
By command of the king (The song of Porfyris)
The king commanded
every fair maid and every brave lad
in every vilayet to gather before him.
And when the fair maids and ...
Crete Cretan Rizitiko Acritic song
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...
Cyprus Acritic song
Charon wore black (The death of Digenis)
Charon wore black and rode his black horse,
he donned his scary black garments and set out for the feast.
At the edge of th...
Epirus Acritic song
Constantis and Constantas (The death of Digenis)
Oh, Kostantis, oh, Kostantas, oh, young Kostantinos,
for three long years wandered looking for a good wife to wed,
[to find...
Dodecanese Rhodes Acritic song
Constantis and the crab
Down at the barren field, near the reed beds,
a crab has become a dragon and is devouring the bravest men.
He ate Phokas’ b...
Propontis Acritic song
Costantis the only son
Kostantis the only son, young and cosseted,
his mother’s only son, her precious darling.
She’d scrub him, comb his hair and...
Thrace Acritic song
Digenes is dying
Digenes, Digenes is giving up the ghost,
my eyes, Digenes is dying
my eyes are black, Digenes is dying.
All the lords on l...
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...
Thrace Acritic song
Digenis is dying (The death of Digenis)
Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling,
and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him,
they set out, bring...