Herrand von Wildonie, Der betrogene Gatte (ca. 1275)
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Maere and Novellas
Herrand von Wildonie, Der betrogene Gatte (ca. 1275)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 2, Nr. 43, p. 337–347
HvWBG-1:
Promythion: To prove his story the poet mentions Ulrich von Lichtenstein. An old knight in Friaul is married to a beautiful wife who is wooed by a young knight. One day she doesn’t want to reject her lover anymore and tells him to come under her balcony and pull on the string on her toe. Unfortunately the string touches her husband’s leg who wakes up instead of his wife and sees the waiting knight.
Motif References:
T 121 Unequal marriage
J 445.2 Foolish marriage of old man and young girl
K 1569.5 Husband catches paramour by using wife’s prearranged signal
HvWBG-183:
The lady wakes up from the noise and frees the knight while her husband fetches light. When he returns she holds a donkey instead. The husband knows that something is wrong but has no proof and goes to bed again angrily. When he is asleep the wife persuades a mate to change places with her. She grants the lover her favors while her mate is in her bed. The maid is beaten up and her hair is cut. When the old knight wakes up the next morning he finds his wife uninjured and is looked upon as slanderer. The story would have bee remained hidden if the amid had not revealed the secret.
Motif References:
K 1512 The cut off nose (braids), A woman leaves her husband’s bed and has another woman take her place, The husband addresses her gets no answer and cuts off her hair (hose), In the morning the wife has still hers, The husband is made to believe that he was dreaming, is insane
K 1515 The animal in the chest, The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife’s unfaithfulness, She frees the lover, Substitutes an animal and discomforts the husband
K 1843 Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate
K 1843.4 Wife has maidservant impersonate her while she goes to her lover
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