The carver of Würzburg
The carver of Würzburg is a verse tale ( Märe ) that was written by Hans Rosenplüt in the 15th century. The topic is the lust of church representatives and the criticism of the clergy's dealings with the population.
The story is about a carving couple who trick a priest and, like the story Der Herrgottschnitzer, takes up the motif of a priest painted for camouflage. The text has come down to us in six manuscripts, most of which come from Nuremberg and the north Bavarian-East Franconian region.
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A carver is married to the most beautiful woman in the city of Würzburg . A pastor has his eye on her and offers her a lot of money to sleep with. The wife tells her husband this, and the two forge a plan: In order to coax the money from him, she apparently agrees to the priest's suggestion. She invites him to her home, entertains him and pours him wine. The pastor then gives her the money.
When the husband knocks on the door, the woman pretends to hide the pastor and orders him to take off his clothes. Then she paints the pastor so that he looks like the statues of her husband. The carver pretends to be looking for a statue to sell and chooses the priest disguised as a statue. However, when he discovers the pastor's limb, he grabs an ax. The pastor runs out of the house in shock and leaves his money behind. The carver follows him to his house and demands 100 pounds for the allegedly runaway statue. He takes the money with him and lives happily ever after with his wife.
literature
- Novellistics of the Middle Ages . Fairy poetry. Edited, translated and commented by Klaus Grubmüller. 2nd edition Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag Berlin 2014. (Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag in the paperback. 47th). Pp. 928–935, pp. 1320–1326 (commentary) (texts in German and Middle High German). ISBN 978-3-618-68047-5
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Grubmüller 2014, p. 1320.