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Permalink Reply by Alexander Noot on January 26, 2013 at 14:34

Someone I know studied classic languages. He translated the one picture for me:

Knife making place (hard to translate....but the dutch word he used was like "Knife Makery")
Work by Aiomos Koutsaniyis Greece 1913
In Piraia, 6th of april

He said it's "purified" Greek. Which would make it difficult to read even for anyone schooled in "Modern" Greek.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Bertleff on January 29, 2013 at 14:27

well thankyou for asking your friend. and tell him thankyou for translating a little. i guess i'll just have to look for someone that can talk purified greek so they can give me the whole translation..problem is finding someone haha

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on January 29, 2013 at 18:17

Alexander,

WOW.  well we have a lot of the pieces now.  Maybe someone speaking a dead language can finish it up for us

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Permalink Reply by Matt Bertleff on February 5, 2013 at 16:09

Matt

I was able to read most of the words, but to be certain I will need to look at 

the knife from closeby. The phrases make a short poem of the short, that people 

from Crete ( Greece), are famous about. The poem rhymes and its meaning is 

moving (many of the words are also grossly misspelled, which speaks for the 

spontaneity and poetic inclination of the knife-maker himself). My translation 

is in prose:

I had this ordered

and I bear it wisely

wishing none of my friends

ever comes in need of it.

I am dying.....???... from sorrow (??)

I am getting down to Hades

in terrible judgement (???)

waiting for you (??)

By : Knife-maker Alekos Koutsanelos (?) year 1913, at Peireas, April 6.

It is an item many Cretans are carrying proudly even today.

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