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 Zakan - wer weiss, wann...

Download the audio files derived from the radio broadcasting series of 2003 about Ladinian legends "Zakan - wer weiss, wann...", made available by the kind courtesy of the Authors, Dr. Andrea Zinnecker and mr. Wolfgang Karreth, of the Bayerischer Rundfunk of Münich. My most heartful thanks to them. The broadcast language is basically German, but several Ladinian legends can be listened to by the voice of mother-tongue speakers still bound to the oral tradition.

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Notice: The hints I'm giving here below at the titles and contents of the "single passages" are bugged by my very scant knowledge of both German and Ladinian. While apologyzing for that, I'm inviting anyone, who can help me improving on the text, to kindly contact me.

I would like being able to transcribe and translate the whole audio, that contains a few notions which I believe being still unpublished, starting from the Fanes' saga.

 

A - Complete tracks, as they have been handed to me:

Track 1 (14.9M)

Track 2 (42.2M)

Track 3 (61.7M)

Track 4 (47.5M)

 

B - Single passages, divided by language and topic (L = Ladinian, G = German):

 

1
G
283K (18")
Zakan, wer weiss wann - Once upon a time, who knows when ...
2
L
527K (33")
A small man gets bigger and bigger, scares the horse to death
3
G
474K (30")
As above, in German; it disappears leaving a disgusting stink
4
G
6.72M(7'10")
Ladinian legendary themes; landscape and geology
5
L
612K (39")
Butter doesn't come, a woman neighbour is a witch
6
G
575K (36")
If you throw something hot in the butter, the witch gets burnt
7
G
1.23M (1'18")
Emma, from San Cassiano, tells her grandchildren old tales
8
L
505K (32")
A priest comes from Bressanone in vacation, he is taken by witches
9
G
759K (48")
As above, in German
10
G
2.03M (2'09")
A geographical description of the val Badia and of its side valleys
11
G
737K (47")
When rewarded, the wildman sadly returns to the wild
12
L
525K (33")
He joyfully brought them to pasture in the night 
13
L
875K (55")
When rewarded, the wildman sadly returns to the wild
14
G
2.18M (2'19")
Life of an artisan and storyteller from San Vigilio
15
L
767K (49")
A cat from Longega used to vanish at dusk and come back at dawn 
16
G
1.16M (1'14")
His master finds him in a castle while playing clarinet
17
L
688K (43")
The castle was bewitched; the cat comes no longer home
18
G
4.52M (4'48")
Old people told stories - not true, but full with great truths 
19
G
1.38M (1'27")
A farmer makes a covenant with the Devil
20
L
984K (1'02")
He becomes a wizard and obtains the castle of Aras 
21
G
578K (36")
The covenant expires, but he succeeds in saving his soul
22
L
938K (59")
No more wizardry, but he dies as a good Christian
23
L
1.44M (1'31")
Once, Fodara Vedla got invaded by venomous snakes
24
G
1.39M (1'29")
An exorcist was called and all snakes ran into his fire
25
L
1.17M (1'14")
But the white queen of snakes dragged the exorcist into the fire
26
G
6.11M (6'30")
Topography of Marebbe, Fanes, Fodara Vedla - ancient legends 
27
L
969K (1'01")
Struggle for possession of the high plains of Fodara Vedla
28
G
360K (22")
 The mounts of Fanes and the High Peak (today in ital. Red Peak)
29
L
907K (58")
 She had gone down into the Popena valley looking for a job
30
G
1.67M (1'46")
 A tale somewhat different from Wolff's one
31
L
1.13M (1'11")
 Again, a tale not aligned with Wolff's one
32
G
1.61M (1'42")
 An old storyteller from La Villa
33
G
3.14M (3'21")
 A Rheto-rumantsch language
34
G
3.72M (3'57")
 Since '800 up to us - a tolerated minority - later, tourism
35
L
1.17M (1'15")
 An underground kingdom below the Padon - gold, gems, mirrors
36
G
609K (38")
 As above, in German
37
L
188K (11")
 Once, a lamp falls from the ceiling and a small hole appears
38
G
1.84M (1'57")
 Who looks out gets blind; the princess is rescued by Odolghes
39
L
1.03M (1'05")
 Miners spread out. Aurona means wealth, that gives no happiness
40
G
1.22M (1'17")
 Its church and its castle- in the background, the Fanes' kingdom
41
L
938K (59")
 The false king came from abroad to marry the Fanes' last queen
42
G
1.97M (2'05")
 The whole story, down to the petrified king above the Falzarego
43
L
1.13M (1'11")
 Lujanta, the end of the Fanes, the petrified king again
44
G
766K (48")
 The legends were studied by Woff and Staudacher
45
G
3.38M (3'35")
 Wolff's and Staudacher's life, merits and defects
46
G
3.78M (4'01")
 Geographical description with historical hints
47
L
625K (39")
 Salvani and gane were chased into the woods by our ancestors
48
G
1.14M (1'12")
 The gana marries a man, but goes back when he violates a taboo
49
L
828K (52")
 She sadly returns into the wild woods forever
50
G
3.09M (3'18")
 Hints about gane, salvani, Spina-de-Mul, dwarfs, witches...
51
L
1.34M (1'26")
 Around Colfosco there were several gane and salvani...
52
G
1.05M (1'06")
 A gana marries a man but leaves him, again because of a taboo
53
L
1.49M (1'34")
 Farming and raising. People climbed by cart up to Alba and Penia
54
G
1.67M (1'46")
 She had fields there, refused coming to church at Snow Holy Day
55
L
797K (50")
 She got buried forever under the snow that now is the glacier
56
G
1.86M (1'58")
 Woodcutter, wizard, minerals prospector
57
L
844K (53")
 They use cows to define the spot where the church
58
G
750K (47")
 Cows stop here and there, but the church can't be built
59
L
672K (42")
 A wall is painfully built, but next morning it has collapsed again
60
G
875K (55")
 They fight and the Saint wins, but the Devil leaves its mark
61
L
1.13M (1'11")
 The Devil's wall down to Carezza and a wide split in the rock
62
G
2.58M (2'45")
 Geographical description of the Fassa valley and of its mountains
63
L
1.19M (1'15")
 He stops at an inn; the keeper gets butter coming with a spoon
64
G
1.56M (1'39")
 He can't do the same; he must write his name in a book
65
L
938K (59")
 The priest helps him; it was the Devil who tried to catch his soul
66
G
1.80M (1'54")
 Father and son live alone in an ancient wooden mansion
67
L
609K (38")
 Meina was a clever midwife; once she meets with a pregnant frog
68
G
750K (47")
 She was a bregostana; later on, a bregostan calls for her help
69
L
266K (16")
 Meina helps the bregostana; the bregostan detains her at home
70
G
680K (43")
 She must wear bewitched slippers out; she succeeds with a trick
71
L
391K (24")
 The bregostan gives her a pair of bewitched shoes
72
G
516K (32")
 Meina gives them to a beggar; she enters a church and flies away
73
L
547K (34")
 Meina gives thanks to the Weissenstein Holy Virgin
74
L
766K (48")
 Witches can gather at night, between two Hail Marys
75
G
1.70M (1'48")
 A farmer denies his milk to a witch
76
L
1.16M (1'13")
 Problems with witches, again
77
G
1.97M (2'05")
 Differences and similitudes of gane, vivane, cristanne, bregostane
78
L
1.27M (1'20")
 Un contadino spacca la legna coi cunei; arriva una bregostana
79
G
1.53M (1'37")
 The bregostana caught in the log and the old trick of "Myself"
80
G
3.25M (3'27")
 Ladinian is an ancient and complex language, with many dialects
81
G
609K (38")
 They lived high on the Gardenaccia
82
L
1.08M (1'08")
 They brought milk (?)
83
G
2.06M (2'11")
 An old man who only speaks Ladinian and tells ancient tales
84
L
203K (12")
 A few chunks of wood (?)
85
G
907K (57")
 The Count of the castle of Wolkenstein and the woman out for wood
86
L
609K (38")
 More on the woman out for wood
87
G
1.83M (1'56")
 Caratteristiche geografiche, monti e paesi
88
G
1.50M (1'36")
 Frida Prima Piazza's home above Ortisei
89
L
688K (43")
 A peasant was very poor and afflicted by drought
90
G
922K (58")
 He brings his animals high on the rocks looking for water and grass
91
L
703K (44")
He meets a cristanna who springs a stream out of the rocks
92
G
984K (1'02")
 The peasant thanks her and his cattle can graze around the stream
93
L
501K (32")
 So they happily spend summertime
94
G
563K (35")
 He builds a house and a stall; the gana takes care of them
95
L
293K (18")
 In Autumn the peasant climbs down with his cattle all fat
96
G
 
1.50M (1'35")
 The peasant marries a landowner's daughter; they get back up
97
L
813K (51")
 His wife mistreats the gana and she makes the stream vanish
98
G
1.30M (1'22")
 All gets dry and desolate again as before, out of any remedy
99
L
625K (39")
 The valley under Sass Rigais still takes its name from the ducts
100
G
2.61M (2'46")
 An active supporter of Ladinian, who translated Dante and Rilke
101
G
3.78M (4'01")
 The three languages, Ladinian used to be the poorest, but no more
102
L
1.31M (1'23")
 They can be met in the woods but are worrisome at home
103
G
782K (49")
 A farmer convinces a cristanna to marry him
104
L
391K (24")
 People said that the cristanne were no christians
105
G
625K (39")
 The chief of the wild people calls her back when her father dies
106
L
594K (37")
 The pesant remains alone, but has his gratifications
107
G
2.56M (2'43")
 A great storyteller from Ortisei, a painter and a sculptor
108
L
516K (32")
 The legend of the castle, perched on a steep cliff
109
G
1.05M (1'06")
 It guarded the Troj Pajan, but one night it collapsed into the ravine
110
L
484K (30")
 Under its foundations a young girl had been buried alive
111
G
2.02M (2'08")
 A pre-historical path leading from the Isarco to the Livinallongo
112
G
1.63M (1'43")
 The border village of Pontives was once buried by a landslide
113
L
907K (58")
 The only house standing was home to the only charitable man
114
L
1.16M ( 1'13")
 Under the Sasslong there was a castle with a herb garden
115
G
1.31M (1'23")
 The owner's son was very sick
116
G
2.38M (2'31")
 The chance for a Ladinian autonomy today
117
G
2.61M (2'46")
 The Moroder family
118
L
1.66M (1'45")
 The legend of the hunter and the casarina
119
G
516K (32")
 The Alp of Cuca lies below the Seceda and there's a hut
120
L
1.47M (1'33")
 The girl who looked after it was a soul from Purgatory
121
G
782K (49")
The hunter takes shelter in the hut for the night
122
L
969K (1'01")
 Steps can be heard and the door opens
123
G
360K (22")
 The casarina gives the hunter food and then vanishes
124
L
1.69M (1'47")
The hunter doesn't know what to do, then he leaves
125
G
1.09M (1'09")
 Had he thanked her, she would be rescued from Purgatory
126
L
2.28M (2'25")
 The casarina sadly tells him so.