The Knautschlings - part 10
Faste´s girls
In this Chapter of the Knautschling tale you will hear me telling you about the heroic struggle
of Faste to simultaneously order someone else to administer a peaceful kingdom and order someone else
to change his daughters´diapers.
For behold, between 1141 and 1149 absolutely nothing interesting will happen !
Now that I have your attention I believe it is appropriate to start continuing the tale.
At least Faste is a worthy hero of this story, since the lack of war or intense realm instability
frustrates him even more than you or me.
Of course the fact that he will henceforth be known not as King of Denmark but as
King of Asturias due to the inexplicable but at that time widespread habit of calling people
only with those of their titles that comes first in an alphabetically sorted list
might have also added to his stress level.
On a slightly random note the good news for the people of York in 1141 is, that
the numerous different criminal organisations are more busy determining who is the biggest badass in town
than they are with doing their actual crimes.
Anyway, Faste finally arriving in the world of adults with the birth of his three daughters
should give us enough room to elaborate on the heroic struggle of his to order someone else to change those
daughters´diapers.
There it is, a historical document proving that Faste ordered the court´s nannies to take care of Sofia.
I hope you are not disappointed my dear reader because that is pretty much it for the aforementioned heroic struggle.
You see, Faste does not really order someone else to administer his peaceful kingdom in this chapter
as no change of the steward takes place in the time period covered by what I am telling you right now.
That opening promise was pretty much a bluff as I knew I could trick you into reading further should I
promise you that Faste will tackle both of these incredibly challenging tasks at once.
On a once again slightly random note Faste finally discovers why his vassal the Duke of Mecklenburg
has so often problems with people revolting in Werle
or "Clergyman Prime" as would probably be a more appropriate name for the city.
Speaking of clergy inevitably leads to the topic of sin,
a matter in which Harald Knautschling seems to have experience.
But Faste does not punish him too hard. Most of all because he sometimes gets quite rough with his own wife, too.
And since Faste is such a virtuous and pious guy who honestly does not steal holy relics that often
his friend Barnim thinks his support could get him to become pope.
But Faste knows that with a prestige like Barnim´s not even the lord Jehova himself could get him to become pope.
and thus declines.
On the third and final slightly random note of this chapter the times must be really harsh if
a rape-apologetic relic-stealing guy like Faste is seen as the most pious lord around.
At the end of this chapter the lack of war or intense realm instability cause even more than stress
for our warrior-hearted hero.
Faste´s girls
In this Chapter of the Knautschling tale you will hear me telling you about the heroic struggle
of Faste to simultaneously order someone else to administer a peaceful kingdom and order someone else
to change his daughters´diapers.
For behold, between 1141 and 1149 absolutely nothing interesting will happen !
Now that I have your attention I believe it is appropriate to start continuing the tale.
At least Faste is a worthy hero of this story, since the lack of war or intense realm instability
frustrates him even more than you or me.
Of course the fact that he will henceforth be known not as King of Denmark but as
King of Asturias due to the inexplicable but at that time widespread habit of calling people
only with those of their titles that comes first in an alphabetically sorted list
might have also added to his stress level.
On a slightly random note the good news for the people of York in 1141 is, that
the numerous different criminal organisations are more busy determining who is the biggest badass in town
than they are with doing their actual crimes.
Anyway, Faste finally arriving in the world of adults with the birth of his three daughters
should give us enough room to elaborate on the heroic struggle of his to order someone else to change those
daughters´diapers.
There it is, a historical document proving that Faste ordered the court´s nannies to take care of Sofia.
I hope you are not disappointed my dear reader because that is pretty much it for the aforementioned heroic struggle.
You see, Faste does not really order someone else to administer his peaceful kingdom in this chapter
as no change of the steward takes place in the time period covered by what I am telling you right now.
That opening promise was pretty much a bluff as I knew I could trick you into reading further should I
promise you that Faste will tackle both of these incredibly challenging tasks at once.
On a once again slightly random note Faste finally discovers why his vassal the Duke of Mecklenburg
has so often problems with people revolting in Werle
or "Clergyman Prime" as would probably be a more appropriate name for the city.
Speaking of clergy inevitably leads to the topic of sin,
a matter in which Harald Knautschling seems to have experience.
But Faste does not punish him too hard. Most of all because he sometimes gets quite rough with his own wife, too.
And since Faste is such a virtuous and pious guy who honestly does not steal holy relics that often
his friend Barnim thinks his support could get him to become pope.
But Faste knows that with a prestige like Barnim´s not even the lord Jehova himself could get him to become pope.
and thus declines.
On the third and final slightly random note of this chapter the times must be really harsh if
a rape-apologetic relic-stealing guy like Faste is seen as the most pious lord around.
At the end of this chapter the lack of war or intense realm instability cause even more than stress
for our warrior-hearted hero.
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