Vis & Ramin | A Classic Persian Tale Of War And Forbidden Love In The Eleventh Century

Vis and Ramin" This is One of the World's Greatest
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The Epic was composed in poetry by Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (or "Gorgani") in the 11th century.

It was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets.

This remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis.

"Vis and Ramin" had immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also the source for the tale of Tristan and Isolde, which first appeared in Europe about a century later.

The plot, complex yet powerfully dramatic, revolves around royal marital customs unfamiliar to us today.

Shahru, the married queen of Mah, refuses an offer of marriage from King Mobad of Marv but promises that if she bears a daughter, she will give the child to him as a bride.

She duly bears a daughter, Vis, who is brought up by a nurse in the company of Mobad’s younger brother Ramin.

By the time Vis reaches the age of marriage, Shahru has forgotten her promise and instead weds her daughter to Vis’s older brother, Viru.

The next day, Mobad’s brother Zard arrives to demand the bride, and fighting breaks out, during which Vis’s father is killed.

Mobad then bribes Shahru to hand Vis over to him. Mobad’s brother Ramin escorts Vis to her new husband and falls in love with her on the way.

Vis has no love for Mobad and turns to her
old nurse for help...

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