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_ Before, population of Mami pastured the cattle here and churches had been here.

_ ečkad mamlär i eǯyār ilāxwdax amečūnen i amečūn ləmāreli eḳlesyäy,

A church had been here firstly, that one which is in Upper-Svaneti, look, where ysyally people go on Kvirikoba, that church had been firstly there, look, in Benieri.

eḳlesyäy ləmāreli čik, žibe šwans er eǯi lié, ḳwiriḳobas er xalx esxri, eǯi ləmāreli mānḳwi eč'ē, benyers.

It seems, that when the Tatars had invaded, they had destroyed that church.

ešču taträle šemosewa er ləmāreli, ečka č'otxwīrax eǯi eḳlesyäy.

There had been a lot of gold.

ešču ləmardēli ramodenime wokr.

That gold was brought here, we call this place Lagurka, they had hid it here, we have the sacred image, upper, above us. That is called Lagurka, that is Lagurka.

k'ōxqidax amečūnen, lagurḳas xwaṭūlid näy, amču xäṗžūnenax, gušgwe žikān lamzər guġwa, eǯi,

That is called Lagurka, That is Lagurka

lagurḳāš xayžxa eǯis, ese igi, lagurḳa

The name of that place is Lagurka, isn't it, it was hid for a long time.

eče der xayžxa, amču lagurḳaš, ču xašxwnēnax eǯi xwāy xans.

It turns out, that they had been afraid to steal the gold here, they had taken the gold to the Upper-Svaneti.

amču likwterd atq̇alinax, k'ōtyax žibe šwänte, eče otgax eḳlesyäy.

This place, which is called Lamria's plain, now if you go up, you can see even the ruins of the church, also the fence is round of it.

ale, lamria naḳs er xaṭūlix atxe, amečūnen ži er adrine, eḳlesyäy näxwiri čwāri, galwäni čwāri girḳṭand.

There is not a fence, but you can see clearly that there was a fence and I found it there myself,

qwila mām äri, mare ži xet... ži xetra eǯi, naqwilar, i mi ž'āmxwidda twiton eščūnen witinà,

It would be one metre long and I dug it, it was in bushes, the neighbour's boy helped me.

irōl amži, ere naxewari meṭro i ž'oxštxar eǯi, ǯirkis'ārda, mezwbel č̣q̇inṭol loxmurǯin,

I dug it and I brought it to the place, where was a church before, I went up on Saint Mary Celebration and I set candles there.

ž'oxštxar i eǯi ž'ōtä eče naeḳlesiarməq̇ i limrye ladeġ ž'oder i ž'oxṭwär ešču santlar.

Before, apparently, they had not collected together, only eleven mules had collected there.

ečkad deme lumxuryelolin, yešdešxu il lumxuryelolin eščūnen,

The whole of the world had collected there, al of them, nobody remembers this.

cadakweq̇ana eščūn lumxuryelolin, eǯi mag, dǟs xašq̇id,

History doesn't remember anything, but only this, that so many people had prayed there.

isṭorias mā xašq̇id ečənka, eǯi mag ləmmezrālin eščūnen.

In our territory such a field had been here that the whole of the field could be as big as a stick of shepherd.

ale gušgwe ṭeriṭoriāysa qanäre laʒxäl ḳwedalcäl mag, eǯḳäli mindwrāl ləmār ame.

This is a place where before people lived, we call this Detsili.

ameču namosaxlar li, decils xwaṭūlid näy.

There is also the place where before was a shop, also houses are standing there.

nadukani li, korwäli ču ləgx.

Even in the Upper-Lamria you can see the place, where was a shop earlier.

žib lamryasi ču li nadukan.

Also the houses are standing there.

korwäli ču ləgx aǯaġ.

The huge stones, how they could bring them up, probably they were giants.

xošeroba bačär, imži äysdax eǯyārs, dāwar irōlx, aġo, mäy irōlx

And now, when the road has been made with tractor, they ran against a crypt, the burial ground of men and they,

i atxe ṭrakṭoršw e šuḳw ansq̇ex, aḳldamars ž'eslaḳānx, mārale našṭuxw i alyārd,

my child and they dug that crypt out.

mišgwa blawd i alāyrd ž'anštxārex eǯi aḳldam.

They are the little children.

ḳoč̣ōl bepšilär lix.

What a crypt has been here, the little children found that crypt.

maḳäli lok ləmardēli ame, ḳoč̣ōl bepšilärs axxwiyddax eǯi aḳldam.

This place, which we call Detsili, here, apparently, before, people have lived here.

ale, decils er xwaṭūlid näy, ameysa, ameysga, ləmzigōlin xalx ečkad.

Here is a place, where before thepeople have lived, here.

ameču namosaxlar li, ameču.

That church of Lamria became to be destroyed.

eǯi lamryä eḳlesiäy, eǯiy ču lexwrad axqedax,

It seems, that they had been afraid of Moslems, that they could take the gold, so, the place in Ushguli, which is called "Lamria Ghoshgini",

muslimānarxenka axq̇alwēnax atxe okrouloba ka liyesd i ušguls er lamria ġošgins xaṭūlix,

where the church is standing, they took from here, from Chvelpi, to there the gold.

eḳlesiäy er ləg, ečeysa äri amečūna näes okrouloba, amxen näes, č̣welpxen.

we go even for praying there now.

näy lǟmzərāltey osxwrid atxe ečxāw.

So, the youth became dso bad, what happens with us?

eǯži, eǯži etpuč̣wān axalgazrdoba, mäy xeyr gwatəm?

Here everything smashed because of hail, we all became smashed and we have only this now.

seṭq̇waxenka buġwird edigān mag amečūnen, gawnadgurdit i ale atxe, ale guġwa,

We, also have this mountain now, the people from Chvelpi.

näi guġwa ser ale laxw atxe, č̣welpars.

_ Why did that village smash?

_ imġ'anxwaṭ eǯi sopel?

_ Which one?

_ xedi?

_ That one, where some people live earlier, as you said.

_ žib rok li nälzig.

_ We don't know this, according to the posterity of those times, according to the history, to the legend, (we know) that

_ eǯi mäy gwixal näy, ečkadäš štamomawlobā, isṭoriit gadmocema aris, legenda ase, ro eǯi er li,

the place, which is a far-far away there, look, in Upper-Svaneti, where the refugees live, somewhere there is... What is its name?

mašēne ǯōdyas er li sopel eč'ḗ, žibe šwans, gadaxwec̣ilär er izgōl... izgex, eče mərām li, mäy xayžxa eǯis?

Not Ushguli, but there in the lower ravine, somewhere in ravine.

ušgul māde, eče, eče, lekwǟ xew, xewisa mərām.

They met one woman, she had had fungi on her face.

eče attxanēnax ešxu zurāls, soḳar xāra ka meqde ničwži.

Apparently, she had had fungi on her face.

soḳar xāra ka meqde ničwži.

When they had asked her, she had said that "I'll never die, never".

er laxč̣wednēnax eǯis, eǯis xōkwa, ere "ǯey lok iwaladeġ dem lok idgäri, iwaladeġ lok."

"Well, I'll be so forever, but I have gone through such a lot of centuries, that I have these fungi"- she said.

"à, amži lok īrda, mare eʒzum xni... eǯšeld sauḳune lok xuwa mič gamowlil, ere ale soḳar lok xār ka meqde."

"I make myself to sink into sin, that, àthatà so,

"cod lok, cods lok xacwem miča txums, ere imnär lok... məde... amži,

I blessed myself, the sky became open for me, the sky was opened for me"-she said.

mičäšd lok loxmezra, dece laqwra lok atḳarēna, dece laqwra lok atḳarēna,

"Isaid at that time, that let's I would be so long as the existence would , I had a time to say this"-she said.

ečka lok xōkwa, ere wod lok arseboba leses, ečkad lok äri ǯey, ži lok oxčīša amša līkwis."

???

ečkad lok irda ǯi, wodod lok arseboba lok ari, mare ale gadmocemit las i atxe ari a dosa, mä yäs xoxal?

???

ma mimqera, šeiʒleba čwāri, šeiʒleba dōsa ari, mä yäs xoxal?

Who?

yar?

_ That woman.

_ eǯi zural.

_ She is local.

_ eǯi amčūna macxowrebel.

She lived in Detsili, they said.

ǯey lok ləmzigōlin decils.

There is the big white stone in Detsili, they said.

decils lok äri ʒġə̄d mukox.

There are buried coppers under that stonr at those times, that one cooper of gold is buried under that ston, they said

eǯi mukox čukwān lok xaštxwa, sṗilenʒi cxwadwär ārdax ečkad, ešxu eǯi wokwr lok xaštxwa eǯi mukox čukwān

And she told fortunes here, she tells fortunes just now there, in Tbilisi, they looked for that gold

i amečūnen imarčyelalda, atxey lok imarčyelal eče, tbiliss, ž'estxāldax eǯi wokrs

and nobody knows does they find it or not.

i axxwīdax a dosa, ala dǟs xoxal.

There was a dug earth.

eče ləštxār las gim.

and These houses are ruins and I don't know was that gold under the stone or not, or did they find it or didn't.

i eǯi mukox čukān las a mōma i al korwāl čwāri, namxwirwāl, eščūn, i ž'axxwidax a dōsa wokr, eǯa mām mixal.

They had buried the gold, and they themselveshad gone away from this place.

wokwr lok otšdūxwax mins, gadaxwec̣il ləmārx amxēnka min.

Maybe there was a war or something, I don't know more about this.

albat lišyāl las a mayġen las, ser ale mām mixal ser mi.

He had gone away from here.

emčedx amxēnka.

Now when they led a tractor to that house, they didn't destroy it, I suppose they just hit it on side

atxe ṭrakṭor er loxgēnax eǯi kors, ču mād axwirx eǯi, ṗilka mər axreḳēna ka

and they had found such a big stone for pounding, that two men took it hardly.

i eʒzum gurna axxwyenax ži, ǯimi laq̇al gurna, ere yeru maras wend oxḳidax ži.

Probably, they would be the giants here - they said.

golyatar lok məres ləmardēlix amēysa.

The people from those times were very big and now, it is said, my grandfather has said, that,

ečkadä xälx ʒġə̄d ləmār eši mag i atxe nākwisi ču li amži, mišgwa babas xāda nākwis,

"It would be such posterity that people would walk like ants".

ere "ira lok eǯḳäli štamomawloba, məšḳäršāl lok izelālni xälx".

We can not live until those times, maybe you'll live so long, but I can not live until those times, I don't know, would it be so or wouldn't, but people became smaller.

eǯi näy mām ogwyēli, sgäy žiw aǯyēnax, mi mām memyēli, m'emqera ira a mōma, čuy eǯži li, čwednecnān xälx.

Big people are not now.

zdarow xälx dēsa ari.

I found that, well, a spindle, a spinning spindle, but I'll never turn it round.

i mi eǯi amxwīdaé, čeršda, laltā čeršda, mare mi eǯis imži oxsūṗni ži,

A mill has not such a bigà thatà but it has.

lešgwers desa xār eʒzu... məde..., eǯis er xār.

_ Is it big?

_ xoša lia?

_ It was big, I threw it out, I didn't need it, such a big, Huge one, how did they turn it round.

_ ʒġə̄d läs, eǯi k'otaḳwr ečelekwḗ, mäy merōl eǯi, ʒġə̄d, xošēreba, imžiġen asṗunaxe eǯis ži.

_ How old are you?

_ si woša ləzä xi?

_ I am from 40th, I became 64 years old in the 3rd of February.

_ mi xwi wormocyän, wusgwēšdiwōštxw zäy otgātw teber... sam teberwals.

_ Thank you very much, well, I disturbed you a lot, but let's have a chance to pay for your kindness.

_ iwasoġw xäri, aġo, masärd ayc̣uxwawed, mare k'oġw enṭixa.

_ Don't worry, but it would be better if you would not make my appearance in that, the appearance of such an old woman in rags.

_ mäy lic̣xwawel li, lučenčure dedber ečeysa k'ēr... k'ēr mod eǯtenānx, eǯi ezar las,

It s better if I've told you everything without it, my talk could be heard by my children.

aš garglunōl, garglä šeiʒleba eče oxmeqrānx mišgwa gezlīrs.