Some motifs and the custom of marriage in Iranian epic literature

جستارهای نوین ادبی

Article 1, Volume 41, Issue 4 - Serial Number 163, January 2009, Pages 1-23   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v41i1.13180

Abstract

Reasearches about ‘marriage’ in Iranian epic literature has always been limited to Shahnameh. In most of these researches, some rare but important motifs have been ignored and not been argued at all. In addition to Shahnameh, the writer of this article has studied heroic poems and some prose texts. He has chosen eight samples of the marriage custom in these texts and has analyzed them.