2) The dead wife
We’re not sure what the medieval equivalent of Women in Refrigerators would be, but Edgin’s poor wife is certainly one of them. She has no depth whatsoever—she’s just a big ball of love Edgin can cuddle under a bedsheet—and she exists solely to die and thus set the Bard on his journey. Getting to know his wife as a person, to any degree, would have given the movie’s final scene much, much more emotional weight.
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