Heinrich Kaufringer, Chorherr und Schusterin (ca. 1400)
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Maere and Novellas
Heinrich Kaufringer, Chorherr und Schusterin (ca. 1400)
Euling, K. (ed.): Heinrich Kaufringers Gedichte. (=StLV 182) Tübingen 1888. Vol. 9, p. 113–120
HKCS-1:
In Augsburg a shoemaker’s wife has an illicit relationship with the choir minister. She fears detection of this affair and her husband so little that she invites her lover to their home and takes a bath with him while covered up.
Motif References:
K 1521 Paramour successfully hidden from husband
HKCS-211:
When her husband passes she mockingly tells him that her lover is with her. The shoemaker thinks she is telling a joke and unwillingly scrutinizes the bath. When he lifts the cover she splashes water on him and he believes she is having him on, and returns to his work. The minister had been terribly scared therefore wants to take revenge on the woman. One morning instead of going to mass she visits the minister, he sends for the shoemaker. He pretends that he wants shoes for his mistress who is in bed fully covered just letting her foot hang out. The shoemaker muses that there is another woman with such small feet like his own wife. While he is invited to the wine cellar the wife is able to leave for home. Coming home he finds her behind the spinning wheel and admits that he suspected her for a moment. She pretends being very angry and he has to mollify her. Epimythion: Women are good in putting their men in the wrong.
Motif References:
K 1213 Terrorizing the paramour
K 1213.1.1 Adulteress frightens paramour with cries of “Rape”– Then she removes her husband’s suspicion by feigning a fit. Later the paramour tricks her to his room and shows her naked except her face to her husband
K 1510 Adulteress outwits husband
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