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Bijan and Gostaham Share One Horse
Book B12 · Forood and the Snowstorm Campaign

Bijan and Gostaham Share One Horse

From B12.22, The Turanians Defeat the Iranians. It illustrates B12.22.117–122:

  • B12.22.117
    Now Gostaham had seen his charger slain,As fortune turned against him on the plain.
  • B12.22.118
    In jowshan, helm, on foot, spear still in hand,He reeled like one drunk across the bloody land.
  • B12.22.119
    When Bijan reached him as the daylight died,He called: “Rise up and mount here at my side.
  • B12.22.120
    No living man is dearer in my eyes;Come, share my horse, and from this ruin rise.”
  • B12.22.121
    So both of them bestrode a single steed,And sought the mountain-skirt in bitter need.
  • B12.22.122
    They left the battle in a routed flight,While darkness gathered on the field that night.

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BijanGostaham (son of Gazhdaham)
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