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by Margaret » Thu September 11th, 2008, 9:32 pm
Oh, my, I had forgotten the part about Henry II being Stephen's child. Henry would have been furious, wouldn't he?
People used to share beds and sleep with many beds to a room, because it was hard to heat those old castles. There's a scene in one of the Tristan and Isolde stories that has King Mark dusting flour over the floor between the beds, then spending a night away from the castle, so he can tell if Tristan leaves footprints traipsing from one bed to the other during the night. One of the weirdest modern misinterpretations, IMHO, is the one that deduces Abraham Lincoln must have been gay because he occasionally shared a bed with another man.
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