Akvan is a div out of the wind. He finds Rostam asleep on the grass, cuts the patch of ground out from under him and lifts the whole thing into the air, and only then wakes him up, to ask politely whether he would prefer to be thrown into the sea or onto the mountains.

Rostam works out in about a second that whatever he asks for he will get the opposite of, and asks for the mountains. He goes into the water. It is the funniest scene in the poem and also the most exact: the only weapon available is knowing how the other one thinks.