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And there abode also his daughter Gurdafrid, a warlike maid, firm in the saddle, and practised in the fight. Now when Hujir beheld from afar a dusky cloud of armed men he came forth to meet them. And Sohrab, when he saw him, drew his sword, and demanded his name, and bade him prepare to meet his end. And he taunted him with rashness that he was come forth thus unaided to stand against a lion.
But false Hujír the aspiring hope repelled, Crushed the fond wish, the soothing balm withheld, "And why should I conceal his name from thee? His name and title are unknown to me." Then thus Sohráb "In all that thou hast said, No sign of Rustem have thy words conveyed; Thou sayest he leads the Persian host to arms, With him has battle lost its boisterous charms?
Then Sohrab said, "Whose is the seat over which are raised awnings and brocades of Roum, that glisten with gold in the sunlight?" And Hujir said, "It is the throne of Fraburz, the son of the Shah." Then Sohrab said, "It beseemeth the son of a Shah to surround himself with such splendour." And he pointed unto a tent with trappings of yellow that was encircled by flags of many colours.
And he told how Hujir had been bound, and how the fortress was like to fall into the hands of the enemy; for there were none to defend it save only his daughter and himself and he craved the Shah to come to their aid. Albeit when the day had followed yet again upon the night, Sohrab made ready his host to fall upon the castle.
And he questioned of its owner. And Hujir said, "Guraz the lion-hearted is master therein." Then Sohrab, when he could not learn the tent of his father, questioned Hujir concerning Rustem, and he asked yet a third time of the green tent. Yet Hujir ever replied that he knew not the name of its master.
And they met in combat, and wrestled sore one with another, and stalwart were their strokes and strong; but Sohrab overcame Hujir as though he were an infant, and he bound him and sent him captive unto Human. But when those within the castle learned that their chief was bound they raised great lamentation, and their fears were sore.
He might have stayed the blow, But when Sohráb his Father's banners sought; He still denied that here the Champion fought; He spread the ruin, he the secret knew, Hence should his crime receive the vengeance due!" Zúára, frantic, breathed in Rustem's ear, The treachery of the captive Chief, Hujír; Whose headless trunk had weltered on the strand, But prayers and force withheld the lifted hand.
What danger threatens! whence the dastard fear! Rest, and at leisure share a warrior's cheer." In vain the Envoy prest the Monarch's grief; The matchless prowess of the stripling chief; How brave Hujír had felt his furious hand; What thickening woes beset the shuddering land.
'Untold, a secret is a jewel bright, Yet profitless whilst hidden from the light; But when revealed, in words distinctly given, It shines refulgent as the sun through heaven." To him, Hujír evasive thus replies: "Through all the extended earth his glory flies!
Yet I will not show him unto thee." When Sohrab heard these words he raised his sword and smote Hujir, and made an end of him with a great blow.
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