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Oh jeez, that term "keeping the bed warm" sincerely threw me off guard...
7 years ago
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haha yes, Estra was her husband's mistress...awkward....
7 years ago
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@Frances, Even more than that, the rather Implicit meaning behind rather innocent-seeming words. The meaning has a lot more than just a "mistress" to it in the modern connotation. Not only is it treated as a trivial matter, but it's also treated as a duty to be performed at a whim. A convenience rather than even a pleasure. Even in other historical media (the Marco Polo series for example) it wasn't treated in quite the same way as here.
7 years ago
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@Heminor, Or am I perhaps reading a bit too much into it? I'm just not very used to the writing style
7 years ago
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@Heminor, no not at all. Her position becomes very important later on as Sidimund's mistress. Its more of an official title like a wife but lower in rank here. But only if acknowledged publicly.
7 years ago
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@Frances,Ah I see. So the intention was more for a logical rather than emotional correlation.
7 years ago
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@Heminor, well....maybe. Like most relationships of that kind, it's complicated. Marriage was definitely more logical than emotional, they were for money and title not love.
7 years ago
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