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Spartakus
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Topic: What Hellas?Fairey land! Posted: 05-Jul-2005 at 13:48 |
Did you know that in the land of Hellas there are more than 48 villages with the name fairey village or sth similar?That there are more than 30 words in the Hellenic language for the creature called vampire.That many islands are considered home of vampires,and many are known to have places named like the Devil harbour,the Devil islands.
Words for the vampire:
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Spartakus
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Posted: 05-Jul-2005 at 13:50 |
There are others of course.....
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Achilles
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Posted: 07-Jul-2005 at 20:11 |
I can't see the names of the vampyrs. all i see is ????????????????
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Der Erste hat den Tod,
Der Zweite hat die Not,
Der Dritte erst hat Brot.
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mausefalle
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 04:23 |
Achilles:
Install language support for Greek, or toggle your character encoding settings.
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mausefalle
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 04:28 |
The folklore legend of vampire is (was?) popular throughout Greece; I believe it's a remnant of the last pagan days of Greece.
Edited by mausefalle
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Yiannis
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 05:21 |
The Greek word for Vampire is Vrikolakas... (for those who cannot read greek characters!)
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 05:26 |
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 05:32 |
Vrikoakas
Vrokolaskas
Vilis
Vourvoulakas
Vroukoakas
Vorkolakas
Zoulakas
Vrikolaki
Vourvoulakas
Varthakalas
Vourvoulakina
Katramis
Beligekas
Vyrkolaskas
Voulkoulakas
Vriolakas
Varvalakhas
Vourlokas
Vourdoulas
Vrykoulakias
Vryokolakios
I think now it's better Achilles.
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
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Phallanx
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 08:45 |
But half of these words aren't totally different from each other. They
are obviously just different pronounciations in the various areas of
Hellas.
Something else.
Isn't vourdoulas a whip '' ?
and 'katramhs' = tar ""
we can find '' known today as ""
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Achilles
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Posted: 08-Jul-2005 at 10:02 |
thank you, i can now read it.
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Der Erste hat den Tod,
Der Zweite hat die Not,
Der Dritte erst hat Brot.
Fur immer frei und ungeteilt
-always free and undivided-
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