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Haft Peykar is the story of King Bahram Gur, known for his hunting ability and seven wives. [4] The Haft Peykar consists of seven tales. Bahram sends for seven princesses as his brides, and builds a palace containing seven domes for his brides, each dedicated to one day of the week, governed by the day's planet and bearing its emblematic color.
In philology, a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. It may draw on methodologies of close reading and literary criticism, but its primary purpose is to elucidate the language of the text and the specific culture that produced it, both of which may be foreign to the reader.
Description: This first part is a treatise on Latin metre and prosody, consisting of verse examples with commentary. [56] Having stressed the distinction between letters ( litterae , which he leaves for discussion in the second part De schematibus et tropis ) and syllables ( syllabae ), Bede explains the rules of syllabic quantity and the way ...
"Allerleirauh" (English: "All-Kinds-of-Fur", sometimes translated as "Thousandfurs") is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Since the second edition published in 1819, it has been recorded as Tale no. 65. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book. [2] It is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510B, unnatural love.
A page from the Parimelalhagar's commentary on the 39th chapter of the Tirukkural. Commentaries to literary works remain one of the most important and telling aspects of the Tamil literary tradition. Commentaries to ancient Tamil works have been written since the medieval period and continue to be written in the modern era.
Commentary on the Twelve Books of Metaphysics (In duodecim libros Metaphysicorum expositio) 1270–1272 Commentary on the Ten Books of [Nicomachean] Ethics (In decem libros Ethicorum expositio) 1271–1272 Commentary on Aristotle's Politics (In libros Politicorum expositio) 1271–1272 Quaestiones de quodlibet I-XII: 1256–1259, 1269–1272
The poem shares similar themes and elements with other Irish immrama, such as The Voyage of Brendan and The Voyage of Máel Dúin, both written in early to mid-900.. For example, both Bran's and Máel Dúin's voyagers reach an island of laughter or laughing people, [28] and in each case a crew member is left abandoned.
Beowulf, now in his eighties, tries to fight the dragon but cannot succeed. He follows the dragon to his lair where Beowulf's young relative Wiglaf joins him in the fight. Eventually, Beowulf slays the dragon but is mortally wounded. In the end, his followers bury their king in a mound by the sea.