It's not neccesarily the language that bothered me, but rather how it was used. I find an ancient King boasting about how he "fucked" some dame very jarring. I don't know, maybe people speak like that in that world, but in my experience with Fantasy swears and profanity aren't used in a dirty manner like that. I'm certainly no linguistics expert at all but I'm fairly sure people didn't start speaking in that manner until the last hundred years or so.
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