Re: An observation about Yinkin

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From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_5Ns86wvmnObTGf-TuamQujXWitXuWhTqcRY-3aN7ghop1ZeJV94hC8qdeA5Ij7YWlQW9>
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:21:23 -0000

> The Orlanth-Ernalda bond is the major marriage model, but even that
> wasn't unbreakable. Orlanth had his fair share of concubines and
> Ernalda had her fair share of husband protectors/lovers.

Not while they were married. There are plenty of myths of Orlanth taking lovers before he married Ernalda (which would including almost all the Orlanth Adventurous or Larnsting stories), or when he wasn't married to her (during his exile). But he never violated his oaths to Ernalda nor her to him.

Jeff