So, if someone wants to be treated like a king, you treat them as such?

In Germany, people don’t drink warm beer, if, like anywhere else, they can avoid it.

I’d go by ‘mechanical devices’, there were hardly any machines in our understanding back then.

In 1700 steam engines weren’t far in the future, but not invented yet.

Takes out their smartphone and starts the beer drinking app.

There is the Norse Beowulf myth, that is somewhat related to the Nibelungs. It might be better known to English speakers.

Not having Firefox, or a derivate, I’d rather use Chromium.

Zoho is a good alternative.