Das Schneekind B (>1200)
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Maere and Novellas
Das Schneekind B (>1200)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 3, suppl., p. 726–728
SchKB-1:
A merchant departs on a long distance sales trip. When he returns at the end of the fourth year, his wife welcomes him with a child in her hands. She says that, out of desire for him, she has eaten snow in the garden and has received a child. Her husband pretends to believe the story and has the boy well educated. One day he takes him on a sales trip. The merchant sells the child to a heathen and pretends that he melted in the hot Egyptian desert. Since water comes back every a year, the snow child will come back, if she told the truth of his origin.
Motif References:
R 61 Person sold into slavery
J 146.2 (Li) The educated youth
S 210.1 Child sold into slavery
J 1532 Adulteress’s absurdity rebuked
J 1532.1 The snow-child: A sailor’s wife bears a son in his absence and says that it came from eating snow. Later the husband makes away with the boy and says he melted in the sun
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