Текст песни Хаким Абулькасым Фирдоуси - Шах-Наме. часть 2 из 3

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Ferdowsi's poem "Shah-name" ("The Book of Kings") is an epic consisting of fifty-five thousand bayts (couplets), in which the themes of glory and shame, love and hatred, light and darkness, friendship and enmity are fancifully intertwined in the eternal struggle. death and life, victory and defeat ...
As sources for the creation of the poem, the author used legends about the first shahs of Iran, legends about heroic heroes, on which the Iranian throne relied in the era of the Achaemenid dynasty (VI-IV centuries BC), real events and legends related to stay in Iran of Alexander the Great. Abulkasim Ferdowsi worked on his poem for thirty-five years and finished it in the 401st year of the AH, that is, in the 1011th year.