Sibote, Frauenerziehung (<1266)
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Maere and Novellas
Sibote, Frauenerziehung (<1266)
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. 1, Dublin 1967. p. 1–11
SibFE-1:
Promythion: The poet claims to have an evil wife at home. A knight is married to a shrewish wife. The daughter is three times more evil than her mother. A knight from the neighborhood wants to marry her, although he is warned by the father. Before she leaves her parents house, the mother advises her to mistreat her husband, as she did with the father.
Motif References:
T 251 The shrewish wife
SibFE-175:
But the bridegroom frightens her on the ride home by killing a falcon, a greyhound, and his horse for their alleged disobedience. She is cured of her shrewishness and is the best wife ever. When the parents-in-law visit, the two knights eavesdrop on their wives’ conversation and hear the mother reprimanding the daughter for her obedience. The young married knight promises his father-in-law to cure his wife. He reprimands his mother-in-law for her shrewishness and says that it comes from the “Zornbraten” in her body. She makes fun of him, but he has her thrown to ground by two servants and cuts a deep wound in her thighs. Then he takes a sheep’s kidney out of her pocket and pretends that this was the “Zornbraten”. To avoid a second operation, she promises obedience. From this moment on the old knight only has to threaten her with his son-in-law and his wife obeys. Epimythion: All women should take this advice and serve their husbands better than this woman.
Motif References:
S 56 Cruel son-in-law
T 251.2.3 Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse
Q 325 Disobedience punished
K 1871.2 Sham cure by pretended extracting of object from patient’s body
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