Der Hufferer, Die halbe Decke C
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Maere and Novellas
Der Hufferer, Die halbe Decke C
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 3, Suppl., p. 729–736
HuHDC-1:
After his wife’s death, a rich and generous knight gives his belongings to his son. The son has a nice chamber prepared for him, but forgets about his father after a while. When his wife gives birth, he allows her to move the old man out of the chamber and put him in a small room. Later, the wife puts him under the stairs, and at last into a far stable, where the compassionate housekeeper cares for him clandestinely.
Motif References:
W 11 Generosity
W 154 Ingratitude
P 233 Father and son
P 236.1 Folly of father’s giving all property to children before his death
HuHDC-180:
The grandson is born in the nice chamber. The child muses how he will treat the father in old age and then asks him. When the grandson comes to the stable, the grandfather asks for the half of a used horse blanket. The father wants to give the whole blanket, but the child wants to keep the other half to give to his father in old age. The father is in dismay and has the nice chamber prepared again for the father. He cares for him properly until his death. Epimythion: The poet gives his name and advises not to rely on children who pay back so badly.
Motif References:
J 120 Wisdom learned from children
J 121 Ungrateful son reproved by naive action of his own son: preparing for old age– man gives his old father half a carpet to keep him warm– child keeps the other half and tells his father that he is keeping it for him when he grows old
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