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Help[Opinions] Re: Griselda
in reply to a message by beethoven
This ... is ... tricky. I don't like the sound or the look of Zelda. Don't know why: just one of those things. I like both the sound and the look of Griselda; but I'm so thoroughly turned off by that ghastly little medieval 'heroine' that I couldn't imagine it used in real life.
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what medieval heroine do you mean, just the name or is there some extra-name association?
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"Patient Griselda" is a character in either Chaucer or Boccacio. I forget which. I've never read the tales, but her character is famous for her patience.
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Specifically, her patience at putting up with ongoing abuse from her ghastly husband, who for dark medieval reasons of his own is 'testing' her 'worth'. Finally he admits to this and they live happily ever after. Makes you glad to live in this century.
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