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Ι was under the impression that Andronikos is a generic name, since the songs are not about emperors but warriors.

It does indeed mean that. I am a bit surprised that the song mentions Turks because in the acritic tradition the opponents are always Arabs, since the songs originate in the time of the western expansion of the Arabs (7-9th c.), but then I suppose that is why this song is placed in the 11th c.

Ποιός έιναι ο Κουν;

As I said originally, Theseus, σκάλα is a word with too many meanings, but it would be safe to assume that at some point people in Corfu knew the meaning stirrup and they probably know it now, too. As can be seen here, the word is still in use in the horseriding community: O Παναμέζος Ισαάκ...

So "as they were taking him down from his horse".

Κάτου = κάτω = down (obviously in the local pronunciation) στο κρύο νερό= by the spring/ river Σήκω = get up σκάλα = Ι will let someone else translate this, as I understand it as "as they were taking him down the stairs of his house", but σκάλα has other meanings, including several local ones...

I can tell you how I found it. It was evident that it was some kind of fairground act (I also thought that ο ξυραφάκιας was not someone who sells razor blades but someone who does something with razorblades, like throw them or eat them or something like that) and I originally thought it was...

I think it describes the merry-go-round and the man who sells tickets for it: PS and I must have been watching too many american films recently, because yesterday I could not remember what this thing is called in British English.;)

Also, o ξυραφάκιας.

Ιπποδρόμιο, not ιπποδρομίο is a carousel

Μπουρλότο= fireship, a ship carrying combustibles or explosives sent burning among the enemy's ships or works to set them on fire, and by extension any bomb. In this case it means that poverty will be gone, decimated, blown to pieces.

Για όποιον βαριέται να πούμε ότι το σχετικό ξεκινάει μετά το 2:00:00 (που αν ήταν επεισόδια αντί για μία ταινία τριών ωρών θα ήταν αρχή του τρίτου επεισοδίου) και ειδικότερα τα περί μετα-αλήθειας ξεκινάνε μετά το 2:20:00 και καταλήγουν στο 2:32:00 με το: But underneath the liberal disdain...

Τώρα που θα αναλάβει ο Τραμπ, αν τα βρει με τους Βρετανούς και τους υποσχεθεί στήριξη να δεις πώς θα αρχίσουν να τρέχουν προς το Μπρέξιτ. Δεν λέω ότι ντε και καλά αυτό περιμένουν, αλλά θα τους βολέψει πολύ κάτι τέτοιο.

Nαι, αλλά πού είναι το τραγούδι με στίχο τη Δευτέρα κληρώνει ή κάτι τέτοιο; ΥΓ το πρώτο άσμα δεν το έχω ξανακούσει, αλλά υποθέτω ότι δεν παίχτηκε στο ραδιόφωνο ποτέ λόγω του τέταρτου στίχου της πρώτης στροφής.

Ι wouldn't use the verb βγαίνω for this, because it implies that the number will come up, which we can't know, but it means that the draw is tomorrow. The λαχειοπώλες usually use the more accurate verb κληρώνω. κληρώνομαι, Αύριο κληρώνει= the draw is tomorrow Τη Δευτέρα κληρώνει= the draw is...

Since in my mind κουτόχορτο is what makes you an idiot once you eat it*, I would argue that it has the nutritional value of negating one's IQ. :lol: * In the same vein as other things that one eats or drinks in Greek folklore, for example αθάνατο νερό, the water of immortality αμίλητο νερό...

Νομίζω ότι έχουν την τάση να το προσαρμόζουν στην περίπτωση. She found out he had a criminal record and left him before you could say habeas corpus (το είδα στο γκουγκλ αυτό και μ'αρεσε). Εδώ όλα αυτά τα θεωρεί κατηγορία ιδιωματισμών που ακολουθούν αυτό το πρότυπο.

Before you can say... και ακολουθεί ανάλογα με την περίσταση λέξη ή φράση, π.χ. το γκουγκλ μου λέει: before you can say Jack Robinson (old-fashioned informal)​ used to say that something happens very quickly: Before you could say Jack Robinson, she'd jumped into the car and driven away. Δεν το...

The accents are all over the place in this text and not always necessary. First of all, for the rules here is again the link I gave in my other post (scroll down for the section "Exceptions where monosyllabic words do receive an accent mark"). Now let's retouch the text above... Ειδικά μαλώνουν...

Ξέρουν πού πουλιεται τo καλύτερο καί το φθηνότερο, is the correct sentence. They know where to buy the best and cheapest. Not του φθηνότερο unless you are from Sterea Ellada/ Roumeli, in which case it is του φθνότρου, and this is an attempt to mock how people from there talk, so don't take it...