\u00de\u00e6r eru ekki spara\u00f0ar l\u00fdsingarnar \u00e1 veisluh\u00f6ldum Xerxes konungs, fyrir karlmenn \u00ed borginni S\u00fasa. \u00dear er allt til alls og \u00f6llum bo\u00f0i\u00f0 a\u00f0 drekka a\u00f0 vild. V\u00edni\u00f0 var \u00ed s\u00e9rh\u00f6nnu\u00f0um gullbikurum, \u00fear sem engir tveir voru eins. \u00dea\u00f0 eina sem vantar \u00ed fr\u00e1s\u00f6gnina er a\u00f0 gestir hafi bor\u00f0a\u00f0 gullfl\u00f6gur. \u00deetta byrjar sem fr\u00e1saga af fr\u00e1leitum muna\u00f0i og firringu. En um lei\u00f0 kallast h\u00fan \u00e1 vi\u00f0 \u00cdslendingas\u00f6gur \u00ed upphafi 21. aldar, og \u00fe\u00e6r voru v\u00edst sannar.<\/p>\n
Xerxes konungur sendir eftir konu sinni, Vast\u00ed, svo hann geti s\u00fdnt fegur\u00f0 hennar veislugestum. \u00cd \u00feessari fr\u00e1s\u00f6gn vir\u00f0ist Xerxes fyrst og fremst l\u00edta \u00e1 Vast\u00ed sem \u201etrophy wife\u201c. Hlutverk Vast\u00ed er a\u00f0 fullkomna \u00edmynd \u00feessa mikla og gl\u00e6silega konungs. En strax h\u00e9r er fe\u00f0raveldinu \u00f3gna\u00f0. Vast\u00ed neitar a\u00f0 taka \u00fe\u00e1tt, h\u00fan er miklu miklu meira en bara s\u00fdningargripur.<\/p>\n
Vi\u00f0br\u00f6g\u00f0in eru eins og b\u00faast m\u00e1 vi\u00f0 \u00ed sj\u00e1lfhverfum valdaheimi karla. Ef konan er ekki til \u00ed a\u00f0 lifa m\u00ednu l\u00edfi, m\u00e1 h\u00fan eiga sig. Ef vi\u00f0 leyfum konum a\u00f0 taka \u00e1kvar\u00f0anir, ef vi\u00f0 gefum eftir v\u00f6ld og \u00e1hrif, \u00fe\u00e1 hrynur heimsmyndin okkar allra. A\u00f0eins konur sem eru tilb\u00fanar a\u00f0 spila eftir okkar reglum mega vera me\u00f0. \u00deetta sn\u00fdst nefnilega allt um vir\u00f0ingu og r\u00e9tt okkar karlanna. Til a\u00f0 styrkja fe\u00f0raveldi\u00f0 \u00ed sessi, eftir \u00feessa \u00f6grun Vast\u00ed, gefur Xerxes \u00fat tilskipan:<\/p>\n
Vast\u00ed drottning skal ekki framar koma fyrir auglit Xerxesar konungs. Konunglega tign hennar mun konungur veita annarri sem reynist betri en h\u00fan.\u00a0\u00deegar tilskipun konungs ver\u00f0ur birt um hi\u00f0 v\u00ed\u00f0lenda r\u00edki hans munu allar konur au\u00f0s\u00fdna eiginm\u00f6nnum s\u00ednum vir\u00f0ingu, jafnt h\u00e1um sem l\u00e1gum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Konur eiga nefnilega a\u00f0 halda kjafti \u00ed vera s\u00e6tar \u00ed heimi Xerxesar konungs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00de\u00e6r eru ekki spara\u00f0ar l\u00fdsingarnar \u00e1 veisluh\u00f6ldum Xerxes konungs, fyrir karlmenn \u00ed borginni S\u00fasa. \u00dear er allt til alls og \u00f6llum bo\u00f0i\u00f0 a\u00f0 drekka a\u00f0 vild. V\u00edni\u00f0 var \u00ed s\u00e9rh\u00f6nnu\u00f0um gullbikurum, \u00fear sem engir tveir voru eins. \u00dea\u00f0 eina sem vantar \u00ed fr\u00e1s\u00f6gnina er a\u00f0 gestir hafi bor\u00f0a\u00f0 gullfl\u00f6gur. \u00deetta byrjar sem fr\u00e1saga af fr\u00e1leitum … Continue reading Esterarb\u00f3k 1. kafli<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,69,85,89,147],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lestur","tag-consumerism","tag-gender","tag-hruni","tag-injustice","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}