Der Vriolsheimer, Der Hasenbraten (>1250)
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Maere and Novellas
Der Vriolsheimer, Der Hasenbraten (>1250)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 2, Nr. 30, p. 149–152
VhHB-1:
A knight goes hunting and kills two rabbits. He has them prepared nicely, and on his wife’s advice, he invites the minister. While the knight is at Sunday’s mass, the wife and her female relatives eat the rabbits.
Motif References:
W 125.2 Gluttonous wife eats all the meal while cooking it
VhHB-60:
When the hungry knight returns home, she says the meal isn’t ready yet. The knight is angry and sharpens his knife for the meal. When the minister asks the wife about her husband’s anger, she tells him cunningly that she has been accused of having an illicit relationship with him. The guest fears that what has happened to many a minister accused of clandestine love will happen to him, and he rides away. The wife tells her husband that the minister has stolen the fried rabbit. The knight rides after the thief, who misinterprets the situation and rides to his church for safety. When the knight learns the truth, he forgives his wife the joke.
Motif References:
J 1180 Clever means of avoiding legal punishment.
J 1563.5 Guests frightened away by housewife.
K 2137 The priest’s [husband’s] guest and the eaten chickens [rabbits]. The servant [wife] who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee, because the priest [husband] is going to cut off his ears [genitals], and he [she] tells the priest [husband] that the guest has stolen the two chickens [rabbits] The priest runs after him.
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