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Feridun

also: فریدون, Fereydun, Faridun

Feridun, the Pishdadid king of Iranian legend who overthrew the tyrant Zahhak and ruled the world in justice — proverbial for royal fortune; his throne is outweighed by a vat-lid brick in §156, and his finger turns up in the potter's clay in §177.

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The Rubaiyat poem · 2 mentions

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