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Excerpt from The Book of Rustem: Retold From the Shah Nameh of Firdausi
One last word about the poet who first told these stories in Persian poetry. His name was Firdausi, and he was born somewhere about the beginning of the eleventh century, that period when the Danes were over running England and preparing to conquer it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
