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[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's just a misunderstanding. He's a known womanizer, does lots of wenching, but, well, spelling hadn't been standardized at the time the illustration was depicting, so they got the wrong vowel intentionally so as to maintain peak historical authenticity.