Das Häselein (ca. 1300)
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Maere and Novellas
Das Häselein (ca. 1300)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 2, Nr. 21, p. 5–18.
Haes-1:
Promythion: the author wants to tell a little evening story in German verse. A knight catches a little rabbit while hunting and wants to bring it to a young lady he has been wooing for years. On the way to her he meets a young peasant girl who begs him to give her the rabbit. He demands her love as exchange. Because she does not know if she owns such a thing she has him look for himself and both are happy.
Motif References:
T 455 Woman sells favors for particular purpose
K 1363 Seduction of a person ignorant of sexual intercourse
Haes-73:
When her mother is embarrassed the girl tries to cancel the bargain. The knight agrees and makes love to her a second time and she keeps the rabbit.
Motif References:
K 1362 Innocent girl sells her “love” and later receives it back
Haes-430:
After one year he wants to marry the young lady and invites the peasant girl with her mother. When he sees her he laughs because of the memories. The bride is curious and wants to know the reason for this laughter. When she learns it she slanders the girl being stupid, the chaplain has done it a hundred times with her without telling her mother. The knight is frightened because of this confession and takes the peasant girl instead of the young lady on his relatives’ advice. Epimythion: I alwas happens, as fate has ordained.
Motif References:
J 491 Old sweetheart chosen in preference to new
K 1275 Boasting husband points out a girl and says – “I was intimate with her but she told her mother,” Wife: “What a fool. I never told my mother”
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