Široka Lŭka

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Široka Lŭka

1 (VZh) [When did you set out to work in the fields?]

2 (a) [0:01] In the old days Dad would get up and shout to the ch- “Children, get up earlier!

3 (a) [0:05] The moon’s out, the [crops in the] field are ripe, you have to go out and reap them

4 (a) [0:08] or they’ll fall off.” We’d get up early, we’d go, we’d start [work] without breakfast.

5 (a) [0:14] Mother brought [us], out at the harvest, “progyuma” (breakfast), to say it in Rhodope speech,

6 (a) [0:19] “progyuma”. And we went and reaped, and gathered the sheaves up into piles.

7 (a) [0:24] After that we loaded them on mules and he drives them to the threshing floor.

8 (a) [0:28] And we did them up in cruciforms, then we make a pile, and then we thresh.

9 (a) [0:33] We gather the grain up into a pile. A pile. [Then] we winnow, and we sing.

10 (a) [0:38] We collect the grain and load it onto the mules, and he takes it

11 (a) [0:41] home. Into the house area, [where] we pour it out [into containers] in the barn. Then –

12 (a) [0:47] potatoes – I started - I – because I’m accustomed to –

13 (a) [0:50] When we take potatoes out – we take them out and plant them in the spring,

14 (a) [0:54] hoe them, dig them up, take them out [of the ground], stuff them in bags,

15 (a) [0:59] and put them back in the hole. During the winter

16 (a) [1:02] we wanted [to know] – I’d ask when is spri- [that is,] fall going to come,

17 (a) [1:07] so girls can gather, the girls at spinning bees and the “heroes” (= boys) at work bees.

18 (a) [1:12] [To be together with] the “heroes” at the work bees, to play music and sing.

19 (a) [1:17] We girls would line up, girl to girl,

20 (a) [1:21] woman to woman, and “hero” to “hero”, and we would sing:

21 (a) [1:24] “They’ve all lined up themselves in lines

22 (a) [1:26] By the sea, the pasha’s guards

23 (a) [1:28] Hero to hero, horse to - to horse

24 (a) [1:32] They agreed, they persuaded each other

25 (a) [1:33] Who should go to the cold water (= well)

26 (a) [1:35] It fell to - to Maruda – to Maruda’s mother

27 (a) [1:40] They asked her, Maruda’s mother

28 (a) [1:43] Where is she, your fair Maruda?

29 (a) [1:44] The fair Maruda is ill, she took ill.”

30 (a) [1:48] After that we would sing a harvest song, and I’ll tell you that one too

31 (a) [1:52] [We sang] the harvest song in the evening, after five o’clock. In the evening,

32 (a) [1:56] [because] we are in the fields late

33 (VZh) [Do you really say ‘kɤsno’ for “late”?]

34 (a) [1:57] Yes, late

35 (VZh) [Did you have any other word for “late”?]

36 (a) [1:59] What? Yes, “gech”, for instance. [laughter]. Late.

37 (VZh) [When was your house built?]

38 (a) [2:03] My house is very old and it’s on the [main] road.

39 (a) [2:05] My grandfather wasn’t capable of making it nice.

40 (a) [2:08] Now we’re waiting [to see what happens]. If they will restore it,

41 (a) [2:10] they will do it. If not, –

42 (VZh) [Your house is very nice.]

43 (a) [2:12] [Yes,] it’s a nice house. My husband left me here.

44 (a) [2:15] I was brought here (as a bride), I gave birth here, I fed and raised [my kids] here,

45 (a) [2:18] Grandma spread out for me a mattress of ferns [laughter] she put down a fern mattress for me

46 (a) [2:23] and covered [me up]. We didn’t deal with doctors, we didn’t go to doctors.

47 (a) [2:27] We didn’t deal with midwives. I gave birth to all four children [here]

48 (a) [2:32] in the house. And I – I bore them myself,

49 (a) [2:34] I bore them myself, I fed and nourished them myself, I unwound and wound them up (= changed their diapers),

50 (a) [2:39] and I sang songs to them.

1 (VZh) [Кога тръгвахте да работите на нивата?]

[When did you set out to work in the fields?]

2 (a) [0:01] bubàjku drùguš stàvaše i vìkaše dɤ ɤ dɤcà stàvajte pò rànu

In the old days Dad would get up and shout to the ch- “Children, get up earlier!

3 (a) [0:05] mɛ̀se̥činata izlɛ̀la nìvata e uzrɛ̀la trɛ̀va d ìdite da a žɔ̀nete

The moon’s out, the [crops in the] field are ripe, you have to go out and reap them

4 (a) [0:08] če že ukàpɤ nìj stàvahme rànu hòg’ahme pòčvahme bèz zakùska

or they’ll fall off.” We’d get up early, we’d go, we’d start [work] without breakfast.

5 (a) [0:14] màjka dunìsaše na ž’ètvata pròg’uma pr da kàža po rudòpski

Mother brought [us], out at the harvest, “progyuma” (breakfast), to say it in Rhodope speech,

6 (a) [0:19] pròg’uma i hòg’ehme i žɔ̀nehme zbìrahme snòpte na kùpčɤne

“progyuma”. And we went and reaped, and gathered the sheaves up into piles.

7 (a) [0:24] sèk’ne gi kàrahme na mùleta i gi kàrə nə hərmàna

After that we loaded them on mules and he drives them to the threshing floor.

8 (a) [0:28] i pràehmè gi kò̝šuve pòsle i pràim kupèn’ i pòsle vəršèm

And we did them up in cruciforms, then we make a pile, and then we thresh.

9 (a) [0:33] zbìrame žìttu nə kùp nə kùp i i vɛ̀jem i pejèm

We gather the grain up into a pile. A pile. [Then] we winnow, and we sing.

10 (a) [0:38] žìtutu gu zbɤrèm i gu tuvàrim na mùleta i i gu kàra

We collect the grain and load it onto the mules, and he takes it

11 (a) [0:41] vəfkɤ̀šti vəf kɔ̀štata i vəf xəmbàr’a gu sìpu̥vamɤ pòsle pàk

home. Into the house area, [where] we pour it out [into containers] in the barn. Then –

12 (a) [0:47] kar kratòha jɛ̀ gu za jɛ̀ òt səm svìknala jɛ̀