Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

[cahn]

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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Re: Lehndorf: A month in the life

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, wow, this is amaaaazing! Really good research, and thanks for sharing the fruits. We've come a long way from "Lehndorff who?" thanks to you.

Per Wikipedia: "At least from the 17th century the name Ahasver has been given to the Wandering Jew, apparently adapted from Ahasuerus 'Xerxes,' the Persian king in the Book of Esther, who was not a Jew, and whose very name among medieval Jews was an exemplum of a fool. This name may have been chosen because the Book of Esther describes the Jews as a persecuted people, scattered across every province of Ahasuerus' vast empire, similar to the later Jewish diaspora in countries whose state and/or majority religions were forms of Christianity."

Did not know this!

Well, if our guy was named after a guy who chose his nickname after the Wandering Jew because he was wandering around getting involved with pirates, that's a cool origin story.