Emer
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Emer, in modern Irish Eimhear or Éimhear and in Scottish Gaelic Eimhir, is the name of the daughter of Forgall Monach and the wife of the hero Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Emer rebuking Cú Chulainn. (1905 illustration by H. R. Millar.)
Droit du seigneur
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Droit du seigneur, also known as jus primae noctis, was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding n
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…killed him in single combat at a ford. Having proved his prowess, Emer now agreed to marry him. Conchobar mac Nessa, the king of Ulster, had the "right of the first night" over all marriages of his subjects. He was afraid of Cú Chulainn's reaction if he exercised it in this case, but would lose his authority if he didn't…
Vasily Polenov: Le droit du Seigneur (1874); artist's interpretation of an old man bringing his young daughters to their feudal lord.
Voltaire, who in 1762 was the first person to use the term droit du seigneur.
Hector Boece, the first historian to record the droit du seigneur, in 1527.
Jules Arsene Garnier Le Droit Du Seigneur