When we first hear of “Dion the Bold”, it is in a medieval folk song praising his skill in battle. We are lead to picture a model of stereotypical masculinity, whose “lance levels mountains”.
I feared that Dion might be profoundly boring – a posturing, macho warrior who lives and dies by only the blandest sort of violence. Fortunately, the sensitive, soulful prince we got instead was anything but.
