Heinrich Kaufringer, Der Schlafpelz (ca. 1400)
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Maere and Novellas
Heinrich Kaufringer, Der Schlafpelz (ca. 1400)
Euling, K. (ed.): Heinrich Kaufringers Gedichte. (=StLV 182) Tübingen 1888. Vol. 15, p. 187–189
HKSP-1:
Promythion: A woman manages to blind her husband although he is able to see. A woman lies in bed with her lover. Suddenly her husband enters the chamber. She hides her lover under the blanket and takes to cunning to let him escape by asking her husband what he would do if he would find her with a lover in bed and what he thinks what she would do. Before the husband is able to answer she covers him with the sleeping fur embraces him and lets him go when her lover escapes unseen.
Motif References:
K 1510 Adulteress outwits husband
K 1521 Paramour successfully hidden from husband
K 1521.2.1 Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband
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