
Rostam Slays Akvan the Div
From C1.5, Rostam Slays Akvan the Div. It illustrates C1.5.21–30:
- C1.5.21Then Akvan came before him, fierce and proud,And challenged him with bitter words aloud:
- C1.5.22“Have you not had your fill of grief and strife?You fled the sea and nahang’s claw with life.
- C1.5.23You have returned to meet me in the fray;Now learn what fate has written for today.
- C1.5.24No further battle shall your spirit know;No sword again from your strong hand shall go.”
- C1.5.25When peerless Rostam heard the Div’s loud cry,He roared back like a lion to the sky.
- C1.5.26He loosed the twisted kamand from its ring,And cast it round the Div in one swift swing.
- C1.5.27Then Rostam twisted round within his seat,And raised his gorz to make the stroke complete.
- C1.5.28As though he swung a hammer in his hand,He smashed the Div and hurled him to the sand.
- C1.5.29He crushed his head and brain with one fierce blow,Then leapt to earth beside his fallen foe.
- C1.5.30The water-blue khanjar he drew, and throughThe Div’s thick neck he cut it, clean and true.
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