The pastor killed five times
The story of the pastor , who was killed five times , was written by Hans Rosenplüt (* 1400 in Nuremberg, † 1460 in Nuremberg). Rosenplüt was a well-known Nuremberg artisan poet. The Märe has survived in two manuscripts: Manuscript h * (around 1490, North Bavarian (Nuremberg?)), Pp. 99–115 and Manuscript w * (between 1466 and 1483, North Bavarian (Nuremberg?)), Bl. 2r -8r ( Reprint: Kully, Codex Weimar Q 565, pp. 56-64).
The market thematizes a common problem in society, namely covering up one's own guilt. It is about a pastor who is accidentally murdered by a cobbler. The shoemaker is wondering how best to blame someone else for the murder. His plan works and a farmer now thinks he murdered the pastor. But even he does not want to have caused the murder and puts the blame on his neighbor. The body ends up with the sexton and is placed in a church, where it kills an old lady and both are buried.
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A priest has to have a hole sewn in his boot. The cobbler is so clumsy that he stabs the pastor in a vein. This then bleeds to death.
The cobbler and his wife come up with a plan to cover up the murder. You put the corpse on a horse and lead it to a farmer's field. Since the farmer thinks the pastor is still alive, he tries to drive him away from his field. When his efforts do not lead to success, he loses patience and throws a stone at the long-dead pastor. This then sags lifeless to the ground.
The farmer believes he is guilty of murder. He and his wife leave the body in front of the gate of his neighbor, who is also a farmer. The next day the neighbor wants to start working. However, he does not come to the field because the corpse is blocking his gate. The farmer talks to the pastor, but the pastor does not respond to his requests. The farmer finally solves the problem by swinging open the gate. The corpse falls down. Then this farmer also thinks that he killed the pastor and asks his wife for advice on how to solve the problem. Together they come up with a ruse: They break into the sexton's house with the corpse. There is a baking trough with dough there. The couple make it look as if the pastor overeat on the dough and died from it.
The next day the sexton's wife wants to process the dough. But instead of the dough, she sees the pastor. From this she concludes that the pastor died from taking too much of the dough and calls her husband over. They then put the body in the church. There she kills an old lady. In the end, the village buries them and no one is charged with murder.
literature
- Novellistics of the Middle Ages. Märendichtung (= Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag in the paperback. Volume 47). 2nd Edition. Edited, translated and commented by Klaus Grubmüller. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-618-68047-5 , pp. 899–915 and pp. 1307–1312 (= commentary) (texts in German and Middle High German).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grubmüller 2014, p. 1307.