Another Open Letter

[nuranar]

To a certain person on little_details:

You tend to post pretty good, level-headed answers on a wide variety of mostly historical facts. I find you faintly annoying because you come across as a know-it-all and sometimes contradict others with little courtesy, but your info is almost always pretty good.

But what in the WORLD do the royal marriage customs of 11th century Denmark have to do with King Hiram I of Tyre?  Hiram was a contemporary of David in the 10th century BC.  Two thousand years and a whole continent make for a heck of a lot of cultural variation! Your other examples aren't any better. Burgundia? The Franks? I can't see any cultural parallels with what is now Lebanon.

Maybe you're trying to draw a parallel between the fact that they're non-Christian.  Ancient Near East religion is hardly equal to vestiges of European non-Christianism 1500 years later. I'm honestly wondering if you read the OP's time and setting.

Besides, Hiram is a contemporary neighbor of Solomon, yes, Solomon of the 300-wives-and-700-concubines fame.  How can you argue that Hiram may not have had either wife or concubine, based on indications from Europe 1500 years out of date?

Confusedly,
Me.