tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post1244170336232274944..comments2023-08-12T03:31:24.561-07:00Comments on postpostochlophobist: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post-81751893066448257422011-12-26T11:26:06.787-08:002011-12-26T11:26:06.787-08:00I loved that one too. Thanks Corneliu!I loved that one too. Thanks Corneliu!Ochlophobist https://www.blogger.com/profile/13751003558600087713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519837413200053629.post-8585251769732840832011-12-26T10:40:50.038-08:002011-12-26T10:40:50.038-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrriQpTtsFs
I find ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrriQpTtsFs<br />I find this one even more beautiful. It also better preserves the archaic character. There is a whole typology of the Romanian carol. They are usually classified according to their function: "for an unmarried lad", "for an unmarried girl", "for old people", "for the church" , "for a house where someone died" etc.<br />They preserve much of a pre-Christian mythology, even where Christian elements were 'copy pasted" to them, in an effort to appease the clergy that, until, perhaps, the 19th century were quite opposed to "pagan caroling".<br />Anyways, I'll try a very crude translation of this carol, which, I think, is sung "for [young/unmarried] dead" or soldiers that never returned from the front:<br />"Come out, ye hosts<br />And see what's coming down;<br />Two flowers are coming down<br />Yet these are not flowers<br />But brothers.<br />For they are Ion (John) and Vasile (Basil)<br />And they are come back from captivity.<br />Their mother upon seeing them<br />Took their horses to the stable,<br />And gave them them red wine."<br /><br />Corneliu I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com