#and many of their descendants nowadays speaks Belaruthian
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unhonestlymirror · 9 months ago
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When Polish nobility calls you a slut and rejects you for being from the rich Lithuanian clan and marrying the Polish king BY LOVE!!!, but 500 years later they proudly call you Polish Queen by blood:
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P.S. It's interesting thay they call her Radziwiłłówna because -owna/-ovna are suffixes used by those families who wrote in Church Slavonic. The main fans of Church Slavonic back then were Ukraine and Belarus. In any case, in Belarus, they call her Radzivił/Radziviłł, in Lithuania, they call her Radvilaitė.
P.S.S. Radziviłs are famous for their humped noses, extreme libido and being good at languages. They also say Radziviłs came from Lizdeika, the sorcerer which consulted Mindaugas.
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