A New Look at the First Line of the Narrative of Rostam and Sohrab

The first two lines of the narrative of Rostam and Sohrab are among controversial lines of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Many researchers have presented different ideas about the different forms of reading the two ending words of each line shaping the rhyme of the poem and also the different meanings of the first word, Konj. The writer in this paper has reviewed main opinions of the interpreters and then by focusing on a collection of literary and linguistic notes has tried to affirm that we can read this word in two forms: kanj and konj meaning the mountain-side and valley.