Das Frauenturnier (>1300)
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Maere and Novellas
Das Frauenturnier (>1300)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 1, Nr. 17, p. 371–382.
FTurn-1:
In a lower Rhine town 40 brave citizen live. One day they go to a negotiation for peace armed only with a sword. Their wives decide to make a tournament. They are in their husband’s armor, take knights’ names and divide in Saxons and Rhine people. At the tournament a girl fighting under the name of Duke Walrabe of Limburg defeats all other women. When the men return they are wondering about the sweating horses and learn that the women had a tournament. The news spread all over the country. When the real Duke of Limburg learns how honorably his name has been defended he thanks the girl personally and gives her 100 Marks when noticing her father’s poverty and marries her to a rich man, with whom she has tournaments in the women’s manner. Epimythion: In such a tournament the women at the bottom are defeated, but nevertheless always have the victory.
Motif References:
Q 60 Other good qualities rewarded
P 559 (Li) Peace: making and conditions of peace (ransom, reparations, submission)
P 561 Tournaments
F 565 Women warriors or hunters
F 1084 Furious battle [fight]
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