Der hohle Baum (>1330)
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Maere and Novellas
Der hohle Baum (>1330)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 2, Nr. 29, p. 141-144.
HohlB-1:
Promythion: Love works marvels on men and women. A peasant is so tired after exhausting daily work that he is not able to make love during night time. After half a year his wife wants to end this inactivity. She tells him that she is in extraordinary unbearable pain and sends him to a hollow oak where he has to find a remedy. She hides there and gives the advice he has to make love with his wife three times for her to get well again. He follows the advice and makes love to her four times. She is so content that she brings him a boiled chicken before sunrise. Now the peasant learns that he could have lived that way since quite a long time, if he had fulfilled his wife’s wishes. Epimythion: A husband who gives his wife the work she advises is treated well.
Motif References:
H 1212 Quest assigned because of feigned illness
K 1971.6.1 Wife behind tree advises the husband about his marital duties.
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