YES ALKJEPOAJWPdJ one of my biggest academic Things is the medieval version, Sir Orfeo, in which there are wow so many things about how Eurydice dies/is zombified/may only be valued for her womb/is silenced, BUT BUT BUT she gets told ahead of time that the fairy king is stealing her away to Dis, and she gets to give vent to her breakdown over that, she gets to actually talk to Orfeo about it, and then he actually succeeds in getting her back - she is essential to the ending of it. Still a fridging, but the loss and return of the queen is also the big deal about the story, which is cool.