Der Ritter mit den Nüssen (>1400)
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Maere and Novellas
Der Ritter mit den Nüssen (>1400)
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. 26, Dublin 1967. p. 106–108
RitNue-1:
Promythion: women sometimes have surprising ideas. A knight’s wife comes in a compromising situation while together with her lover when her husband returns earlier than expected because of a rainstorm. She hides the lover behind a bed curtain but throws him nuts.
Motif References:
K 1521.4 Paramour hidden in the bed
RitNue-89:
She tells her husband she has an unknown knight hidden in her bed. The husband thinks that she wants to mock him and doesn’t look behind the curtain. Then she explains that it has been a joke. She says it would be possible for her to bring a visitor out of the house unseen.
Motif References:
K 1700 Deception through bluffing
RitNue-180:
When her husband asks how she takes him playfully under her clothes and veils his head to have the lover escape. Epimythion: Beware of cunning women.
Motif References:
K 1521.5.1 Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband
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