Faránuk

Role: mother of Feridún · First appears: Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6

Life events

• Faránuk fled with her infant son after Abtín’s death.(Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6)
  • With: Feridún
  • “When the mother of Feridún heard of this sanguinary catastrophe, she took up her infant and fled.”
• Faránuk left Feridún with the pasture keeper and went to the mountain Alberz.(Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6)
  • With: Feridún
  • “At length she thought it best to leave Feridún with the keeper of the pasture, and resigning him to the protection of God, went herself to the mountain Alberz.”
• The pasture keeper nourished Feridún with a parent’s affection.(Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6)
  • With: Feridún
  • “The keeper readily complied with the tenderest wishes of the mother, and nourished the child with the fondness and affection of a parent during the space of three years.”
• Faránuk reclaimed Feridún and took him to a safer refuge on the mountain Alberz.(Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6 · 📍 mountain Alberz)
  • With: Feridún
  • “After that period had elapsed, deep sorrow continuing to afflict the mind of Faránuk, she returned secretly to the old man of the pasture, for the purpose of reclaiming and conveying Feridún to a safer place of refuge upon the mountain Alberz.”
• Faránuk entrusted Feridún to a dervish’s fostering care.(Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6 · 📍 mountain Alberz)
  • With: Feridún
  • “The ancient records relate that a dervish happened to have taken up his abode in the mountain Alberz, and that Faránuk committed her infant to his fostering care.”
• Faránuk told Feridún that Zohák had killed his father.(Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6)
  • With: Feridún Abtín
  • “He inquired of his mother why Zohák had put his father to death, and Faránuk then told him the melancholy story;”

Mirtás-Tází, and his Son Zohák · Part 6

• child: Feridún “Abtín was the name of Feridún's father, and that of his mother Faránuk, of the race of Tahúmers.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Sháh Námeh. Made with Rho MD.