Apparently future Peter III did this with his bff, Catherine, although because they lived together, I doubt it was ever put into writing.
Maybe we should add he did this at a point when Catherine hadn't yet had any lovers of her own.
LOL on your Professor. The thing is, nobody ever talked the way characters in Wagner's operas do. He fashioned their language after some elements of medieval German poetry plus some elements of what 19th century linguists like Jacob Grimm had deduced about pre medieval German, mixed and mingled and was creative about it according to his needs. (For example, the reason why he uses the "Stabreim", the alliterative rhyming, so often, isn't that it was dominant in what survives of old and medieval German but that it was easiest to sing, which makes sense for a composer!
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Re: Extraordinary documents by monarchs, you say?
Date: 2021-08-19 05:48 am (UTC)Maybe we should add he did this at a point when Catherine hadn't yet had any lovers of her own.
LOL on your Professor. The thing is, nobody ever talked the way characters in Wagner's operas do. He fashioned their language after some elements of medieval German poetry plus some elements of what 19th century linguists like Jacob Grimm had deduced about pre medieval German, mixed and mingled and was creative about it according to his needs. (For example, the reason why he uses the "Stabreim", the alliterative rhyming, so often, isn't that it was dominant in what survives of old and medieval German but that it was easiest to sing, which makes sense for a composer!