Der Herrgottsschnitzer (>1200)
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Maere and Novellas
Der Herrgottsschnitzer (>1200)
von der Hagen, Fr.H.: Neues Gesamtabenteuer: die Sammlung der mittelhochdeutschen Mären und Schwänke des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts/ ed. by Heinrich Niewöhner 2nd ed., Vol. 1, Nr. 33, Dublin 1967. p. 144–146
HgSc-1:
In a town near the Rhine lives a woodcarver who is married to a beautiful wife. A minister, a runaway monk, falls in love with her and offers her 40 pennies for a night with him. Although she rejects him he insists on his wooing and she complains to her husband. They decide to punish the minister. Pretending her husband is away she orders the minister to her place, takes his money and guides him to her husband’s workshop where she has made a bed.
Motif References:
K 443.2 Clever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her
HgSc-2:
All of a sudden the husband returns and knocks on the closed door. Pretending to hide him the wife has the minister stand to a cross and paints him like a crucifix. The woodcarver enters and turns to the crucifix. He praises it as a good work of the apprentice but criticizes the penis hanging down. He takes out his knife and sharpens it to cut it off but the minister runs away. The artist follows him complaining that a wooden crucifix has run away. The minister escapes but is exiled from town and country and loses his possessions
Motif References:
Q 431.5.1 Banishment for attempted seduction
K 1210 Humiliated or baffled lovers
K 1558 The husband prepares to castrate the crucifix. The artist’s wife’s paramour poses as crucifix when caught. When he sees the husband’s preparations, he flees naked
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