Gordafarid

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Gurdāfarǐd (Persian: گردآفريد‎ ) is one of the heroines in Ferdowsi's Shahnama. She was a champion who fought against Sohrab (another Iranian hero who was the commander of Turanian army) and could for a while stop the Turanian troops who were marching to the land of Iran. She is a symbol of courage and wisdom for Iranian women in Shahnameh.

She hid her tresses under a helmet of Roum, and she mounted a steed of battle and came forth before the walls like to a warrior. And she uttered a cry of thunder, and flung it amid the ranks of Turan, and she defied the champions to come forth to single combat. And none came, for they beheld her how she was strong, and they knew not that it was a woman, and they were afraid.

---Ferdowsi, "Šāhnāma" ("Book of Kings")

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	شاهنامه فردوسی Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Characters:	Abtin \| Arash \| Afrāsiāb \| Esfandiār \| Fereydun \| Goodarz \| Gordāfarid \| Hushang \| Jamshid \| Kāveh \| Kai Khosrow \| Kiumars \| Manuchehr \| Rakhsh \| Rohām \| Rostam \| Rostam Farrokhzad \| Rudābeh \| Sām \| Shaghād \| Siāmak \| Siāvash \| Simurgh \| Sohrāb \| Tahmineh \| Tahmuras \| Zāl \| Zahhāk
Places:	Irān \| Māzandarān \| Samangān \| Turān \| Zābol \| Kābul \| Birjand