{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/fjort/fjo48.htm","path":"afr/fjort/fjo48.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/fjort/fjo48.htm","text":"Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort, by Richard Edward Dennett, [1898]\n1. Munu u li vumba lelo u xinda ku vata mama.\n 2. Muango ma woho ba li aku bunkuela anj\u00e9a ku kuela mp\u00e9.\n 3. Ku simba va nxenzo, ku simba va ku bella, malongo, malongo mabila nkumbu.\n 4. Minu uali aku mama.\n 5. Ndumba buala lelo uiza muinhi.\n 6. Suaka esesi lelo xindaku sala.\n 7. Minu uali aku mama\n 8. Zimvula ziamana.\n1. Tu mater cui os est magnum, multum serere debes.\n 2. Tu qui permultum saltas [nupt\u00e6 mulieres dicunt] desine saltare, et nube tu quoque.\n 3. Mulier salax, qu\u00e6 huc illuc (multa loca) visitat, sed si quando cum ea vis coire, morbum nescio quem semper pro excusatione habet.\n 4. Forsitan qu\u00e6 propria sint tibi palam faciam, O mater.\n 5. Meretrix in urbem interdiu venire solet [dum nupt\u00e6 mulieres in villa restant].\n 6. Gracilis mulier opus suum bene perficit.\n 7. Forsitan [etc., ut supra (4)].\n 8. Imbres cessant [id est, hoc carmen de mulieribus, qu\u00e6 per imbres serunt, finitum est].","title":"Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort: The Song Of Loango Women.","type":"page"}