Motif Index of German Secular Narratives                 
Published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
 Introduction   Matière de Bretagne   Chansons de Geste   Miscellaneous Romances   Oriental Romances   Heroic Epic   Maere and Novellas   Romances of Antiquity   Index 

Heinrich Rafold, Der Nussberg (>1300)

HRNb-1
 

Maere and Novellas

Heinrich Rafold, Der Nussberg (>1300)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 1, Nr. 19, p. 445–447

HRNb-1:   Promythion: The poet admits that he is uneducated. A king in war with heathen neighbors has the castle Nussberg built and gives it to a brave knight. The knight of Nussberg manages to catch the heathen king. While he is prisoner on the castle his wife falls in love with the heathen king and frees the prisoner and elopes with him while her husband is absent.
Motif References:

T 10 Falling in love
R 162 Rescue by captor’s daughter (wife, mother)[niece]