Die böse Frau (>1240)
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Maere and Novellas
Die böse Frau (>1240)
Schröder, E.: Zwei altdeutsche Schwänke: Die böse Frau. Der Weinschwelg. Leipzig 1913. p. 15–42
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A hard pressed husband complains about his mean wife. He describes the beatings he gets and compares them with the battles that famous heroes had to fight. The worst beating is the sixth. He almost dies. Friends stop the fighting, but peace does not last long.
Motif References:
Z 71.4 Formulistic number: six
T 250 Characteristics of wives and husbands
T 251 The shrewish wife
T 251.8 Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning
T 256 The quarrelsome wife
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