7984 - The legend of the knight and women
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou, Evi Charitidou
The legend of the knight and women
lived in 1508 with the battalion.
It was the second siege
yet Leros was still standing
against the ottoman conqueror.
One by one, the knights were dying
on the altar of sacrifice
and in the end there remained the one
it was only then when he united the women.
And it was these women with the armors
of the dead knights of the battalion
who tricked the ottomans
who left the island
because they had believed that
by no means would the guard kneel.
That was the legend of the knight
before he left his armor.