Category: Fable song (ballad)
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable song (ballad)
A fair maid did sing
A fair maid sang up upon a rope bridge,
but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still.
And the river spirit came to h...
Cyclades Paros Fable song (ballad)
A fair maid did sing
A fair maid did sing out in the moonlight,
but the gentle wind took her song
and swept it out to sea
and every boat that h...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable song (ballad)
A fair Trikeriotissa
A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl,
is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle.
As she spooled threads ...
Central Greece Viotia, Arachova Ritual song, Fable song (ballad)
A festival is being held
Local dance of Saint George
A festival is being held, high up around Saint George’s.
– Salutations, Frankish lord!
A multitude was at the feast and the...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Meli Fable song (ballad)
A little shorty (Meli, Erythraia) (A brother and a sister recognize each other)
A little shorty, a short little man,
aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife
and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, wa...
Sporades Skiathos Fable song (ballad)
A little shorty (Skiathos) (A brother and a sister recognize each other)
A short little man had a beautiful wife.
The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land
and a pasha, a pasha envied ...
Crete Chania, Lakkoi Fable song (ballad)
A maid bidding farewell (Spouses recognized on the emigrant's return)
A maid was seeing her husband off to foreign parts
holding a candle out for him to see,
tankards of wine for him to drink.
...
Asia Minor Fable song (ballad)
A maid from Evripο
A maid from Evripo sought to set sail,
she sought to make passage.
She sought to make the passage to the far shore
and pai...
Asia Minor Erythrea, Reisdere Fable song (ballad)
A maid from Vrontados (The best-woman who ended up a bride)
A maid from Vrontados sat weaving,
her loom in full song to the shuttle’s beat
when a bird flew down and perched on it.
It...
Propontis Fable song (ballad)
A maid was singing (The wife scorned)
A maid was singing in a high-walled palace.
The wind swept her voice out to sea
and every ship that heard it reefed its sai...
Propontis Table song Fable song (ballad)
A maid was singing longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...
Propontis Peramos Fable song (ballad)
A maid would have her way
A maid would go
would go a-strolling
and then go back again.
She called her neighbours together
yes, by Saint George
and...
Thrace Evros, Nea Vyssa Fable song (ballad)
A mother has a son (Unholy union)
A mother has a son, the apple of her eye,
and the neighbourhood would have him,
’tis a wonder the very mountains do not cru...
Propontis Nicomedia, Katirli Fable song (ballad)
A prince is to be wed (Evil in-laws)
A prince is to be wed
to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here.
His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock,
little re...
Eastern Aegean Chios Fable song (ballad)
A trader made his way
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
Eastern Aegean Chios Fable song (ballad)
A trader made his way
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
Peloponnese Fable song (ballad)
All the castles I have seen (The castle of the beautiful maid)
All the castles I have seen, not one have I not visited
vr' amán amán, not one have I not visited,
oh maid Frankish, maiden...
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...
Cyprus Fable song (ballad)
Aroafnou
In the neighbourhood close by, up in Koilanin
there are three beautiful maids and they are singing.
One shrill, one deep of...
Sporades Skiathos Ritual song, Fable song (ballad)
Arta’s bridge
Down on the shore where land meets sea,
where the world ends,
they set to building a bridge,
but the bridge would not stan...