Area: Karpathos, Olympos
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Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Sea and sailors chanty, Lament
A sailor-lads a-dying
I heard the shouting and the cries, they filled the Cyprus straits.
I thought they must be slaughtering bulls or taming some...
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 ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Feasting lords eating and drinking (Andronikos and his steed)
Some lords are eating and drinking at a marble table,
a table of marble, silver and gold,
they are all eating and drinking ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic song
Kalomoiris and the Saracen (The Song of Armouris)
Kalomoiris’ youngest boy was born at night,
in the night before the cock crowed.
On the very same night that he was born, h...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Fable song (ballad), Sea and sailors chanty
Shes a girl from Amorgos
She’s a girl from Amorgos, ribbon, o my ribbon!
she wants to go out to sea, braided, ribbon mine!
But how? She cannot go to...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Love song
The apple trees complaint
In Konstantinos’ gardens a brook welled up,
because of which I planted an orchard
with apples and quinces, with laurels and...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Love song
The eagle and the partridge
An eagle swooping over and over the mastic bushes
singing sad songs to the partridge
scratching in the earth below,
sorrow...
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