Brenda Stubbert Reel • 09
Channel: EMIAN
Date: 2020-08-17

BRENDA STUBBERT REEL (Trad./Arranged and Recorded by Emian)

Emilio A. Cozza: Great Highland Bagpipe
Anna Cefalo: Electric Harp
Supported by digital base conceived by Emian 💻🎶

Shooting: Pellegrino Tarantino/Nikon D500 📸
Video/Audio Editing: Emian
Moral Support: Sisco

Location: Longobard Castle in Avella (Av) | Irpinia 🌿

Built in the seventh century with the aim of controlling the borders, like any self-respecting fortress, the Avella Longobard Castle is surrounded by an aura of mystery and it is the setting for a legend, the protagonists are two young lovers: Cofrao and Bersaglia.
It is said that one day a Persian prince, a beautiful girl and some of their servants arrived in Avella. Nobody understood that he was a prince but, in a short time, the boy was able to be loved by everyone because his kind and polite manners. Together with some local young people he built, in a very short time, a wonderful castle where he could finally live his love serenely: the couple was opposed by the royal relatives of the prince, who wanted for him a noble woman and not a peasant; that's why the two young men had to flee far away.
Their happiness, however, did not last long: the girl was struck by a dark evil.
No doctor was able to understand what he was suffering from and, after months of agony, she died, leaving the prince devastated by grief. Bacuase the suffering he decided to return to his native land.
Once on horseback, outside the castle walls, he heard the sound of a lyre and a melodious voice: it was that of his beloved.
He decided to go back, following the direction of the voice but suddenly the horse went wild and threw him off. At this point, before fainting, the prince saw a cloth stained with blood on which was written: "how in life we ​​will love even in death".
After a few hours he recovered and immediately he realized that the castle had been replaced by an immense field of tombs and one of them was empty. Rising to his feet with difficulty, he approached its edge and let himself fall inside, dying instantly.

To remember this tragic love story, the Avellans began to plant agave seeds around the castle, here also called "'a' mmiria", translated as "envy", because they believed that it was the cause of the death of the two young lovers.
Even today, there are those who swear that, on some nights, you can hear the sound of a lyre and a melodious voice or that, on full moon nights, through the windows of the castle, you can see two shadows walking by.
For the Avellans, they are the souls of the two lovers that death wasn't able to separate.

Respect Nature. Honor your Land.