Their luckless victims were brought back to Aspromonte, the uplands that form the rocky, rugged heart of Calabria, and hidden in caves until their families or firms could get together the ransom.
Legend, who wears his made-up name lightly, has commandeered a sector where personality is secondary to the song, and the song looks back to sunny retro uplands in which romance is exalted, and politics don't figure.
In 2013, Tim Farron pronounced himself "delighted that Natural England are readjusting their approach to the uplands, with the recent dropping of their Uplands Vision".
The native species have been pushed to the uplands, and many are not even faring well there.
Most of Auvergne belongs to the uplands of the Massif Central.
Until highways were constructed over the plateau tops, access to the uplands was difficult.
The fall to the uplands of western Uganda, however, is more gradual.
Most experts agree: lifting a poor worker to the uplands of self-sufficiency takes a concerted, many-pronged effort.
To the uplands of Herat I went, and to Kandahar I looked.
Composition at one year of exposure was 99% dissimilar to the uplands, and composition at four years of exposure was 83 84% dissimilar to the uplands.
