Albrecht von Halberstadt, Metamorphosen, Fragment B (1190/1210)
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Romances of Antiquity
Albrecht von Halberstadt, Metamorphosen, Fragment B (1190/1210)
Leverkus, W.: Albrecht von Halberstadt, Metamorphosen, Fragment B. ZfdA 11 (1859). p. 358-374.
AvHMB-1:
Phoebus and Pan: Pan and Phoebus in musical contest, Mount Tynolus acting as umpire: Pan plays his flute, then Phoebus his harp in the presence of Mida, who happens to be there by chance. In the end, Tynolus decides in favor of Phoebus with everybody’s consent except for Mida’s.
Motif References:
A 163 Contests among the gods
AvHMB-29:
Phoebus punishes Mida’s judgment by transforming his ears into those of an ass. Though Mida tries to hide his shameful ears, his barber takes notice of them. He is on one hand afraid to reveal his master’s secret, on the other urged to speak it out loud. This is the reason why he digs a hole into the ground and whispers into it what he has seen, then refilling the pit with earth. After some time reed begins to grow on the place of the hollow, and when the wind comes it whispers the words of the servant that have been buried there, revealing that Mida has the ears of an ass.
Motif References:
Q 221.1 Discourtesy to god punished
P 446 Barbers
N 465 Secret physical peculiarity discovered by barber
F 511.2.2 Person with ass’s (horse’s) ears
Q 551.3 Punishment: transformation
Q 584 Transformation as fitting punishment
D 1316.5 Magic speaking reed (tree) betrays secret
D 1619 Miscellaneous speaking objects
AvHMB-72:
Laomedon: After he has avenged Mida’s judgment, Phoebus moves through the air to the place where Laomedon is building the castle of Troy. Phoebus and the sea-god help Laomedon erecting the walls on condition that they will be rewarded with gold. After the work has been completed Laomedon refuses to pay and is punished by the sea-god: his land is flooded and his daughter Hesione given to a sea-monster and tied to a rock.
Motif References:
A 171 Gods ride through air
A 181 God serves as menial on earth
K 231.2 Reward for accomplishment of task deceptively withheld
Q 266 Punishment for breaking promise
A 421 Sea-god
Q 552 Prodigy as punishment
Q 599 Other punishments
AvHMB-106:
Hercules rescues the captive maiden and demands from Laomedon a mare as reward. Despite his promise, the king withholds the reward and Hercules this deceit by besieging and capturing Troy with the aid Telamon, King Eacus’ son. Telamon receives the hand of Hesione as reward.
Motif References:
R 111.1.4 Rescue of princess (maiden) from giant (monster)
R 169 Other rescuers
K 231.2 Reward for accomplishment of task deceptively withheld
Q 266 Punishment for breaking promise
Q 595 Loss or destruction of property as punishment
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