Herrand von Wildonie, Die treue Gattin (ca. 1275)
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Maere and Novellas
Herrand von Wildonie, Die treue Gattin (ca. 1275)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 3, suppl., p. 713–719
HvWTG-1:
Promythion: The poet is glad that he is able to tell a nice pacifying story. An ugly knight has a very beautiful wife who loves him dearly. In a battle he loses an eye. Even uglier than before, he fears to return to his wife and sends his nephew with the message. To have him return, his wife cuts out one of her own eyes with scissors and sends a message to her husband that now they are equal, and he should return. The knight learns of the horrible incident and returns ashamed. The wife who was praised in the past is praised even more.
Motif References:
T 215.4 Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference to her love.
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