Maere and Novellas

Der Schreiber (>1300)
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., Dublin 1967, vol. 1, Nr. 27, p. 109–112.

Schr-1: Promythion: love makes tricky and resourceful. A scribe serves his master ten years and falls in love with his master’s wife. When he doesn’t dare to speak up he gets lovesick and suffers one year. One day when the lady visits him to look after him he confesses his love. The lady promises to comfort him in the following night. In evening she has him fetch light for the master and after extinguishing the light he remains in the room. He follows the instructions but the lady seems to have forgotten him because she has fallen asleep. In his need he pulls her foot to remind her of him. She cries out and tells her scared husband she had a dream that the scribe has pulled her foot. When the woman falls asleep again the scribe pulls her foot again. The woman tells her husband that the scribe is perusing her with his proposals and she has invited him to the garden. He should put on her clothes and go see for himself.

Motif References:

T 24 The symptoms of love

Maere and Novellas

Der Schreiber (>1300) 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., Dublin 1967, vol. 1, Nr. 27, p. 109–112.

Der Schreiber (>1300)
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., Dublin 1967, vol. 1, Nr. 27, p. 109–112.