Beautiful. Its a shame these aren't subtitled in english for all to understand the lyrics. The title means "What Janina's Eyes Have Seen"
I love the moment at 2:56 where the men in the background draw their swords. The execution is very natural and conveys an authenticity such that
I feel transported into the antiquity of Epirus for a moment.
This song is considered as the symbol of the Albanian folk. There are many imprecations made also by foreigners, French, etc. The song speaks of three people from the Laberia region, Zenel Celua with the Velciot (a man from the village of Velca), together with the valiant Jace Mavrova went to Janina, in a place called the five wells in the gorge, passing in the middle tabor (military unite in the Ottoman army) and have killed a great Pascia.
But also the dances are beautiful:
Shpata jon gris ferman - Grupi i Vranishtit
Our sword torn the ferman
It's a sung dance. It`s a song that talk about the uprisings against the Tanzimat. The song says, Albania we are ready on feet for you. We don`t pay xhelep(Ottoman taxe) and we don`t give nizams(recruits for the Ottoman army). These are the pyrrhic dances of the Albanians reported by many travellers of the of the XIX century.
For a Lab, composing a song was always an easy thing and it was always part of their life. If two Labs met each other traveling, they sat down, smoked tobacco and began to sing. Then, after being rested a bit, everyone continued on his way.
The song was also used when you wanted to joke or make irony with someone. For example, in these days there is a student protest against the Rama government. In the video below there are some students. The one in the middle is Lab, the others not because they don`t know how to sing. He composed the song there in the moment. The song say, we are not sheepas you want and you(Rama) will fulfill all our eight requests one by one.