# nftnyc2023 fairytaletuesday shahnameh folkloresunday

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This is one of the love stories of Ferdowsi’s book Shahnameh,the great Iranian poet.
Manijeh was the princess of the land of Nuran who fell in love with the son of Give ,one of the sailors of king of Iran,called Bijan.

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2023-04-07

Gordafarid is a woman warrior in the Persian epic poem The Shahnameh, described as "a lion eager for battle." She delays enemy troops marching on Persia by riding out to meet them, roaring, "Where are your heroes, your warriors, your tried & tested chieftains?"

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2023-03-28



In Ferdowsi's one of the adventures of the Persian mythological hero Rustam is his defeat of a dragon with the help of his faithful horse, Rakhsh.

Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Folio Society, 2009.* Watercolour, 280 × 200 mm.
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2023-01-17

In the epic Persian poem The Shahnameh, the divine being Sorush appears in the form of a peri to Keyumars, the first Shah of Iran, to warn him of the demonic spirit Ahriman. Keyumars assembles an army, including peri soldiers, to defeat Ahriman.

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2022-06-05