The Christian Broker's Story: The Young Man with the Chopped Off Hand and the Lady
The Christian Broker's Story: The Young Man with the Chopped Off Hand and the Lady is a story from A Thousand and One Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The Story of the Christian Broker: The Young Man with the Chopped Off Hand and the Lady (Nights 109–121), in Max Henning and Gustav Weil as a story of the Christian .
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The realtor tells how a distinguished young man sold him a load of sesame seeds but then didn't pick up the money. His right hand is missing. He tells how he came to Cairo from Baghdad, sold fabric and fell in love with a lady. He visits her every evening, they eat, drink and sleep together, he leaves money there. When he has nothing left, he takes a man's wallet in the crowd. You cut off your hand. When the lover sees it, she feels sorry for him. She marries him and leaves him riches. The broker agrees to accompany him on a trip.
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The broker tells the Emperor of China in The Hunchback, the friend of the Emperor of China , and that this is how he came to his country. The following is the story of the chef: The young man from Baghdad and the slave girl Subeidas, the wife of the caliph , The story of the Jewish doctor: The young man from Mosul and the murdered lady , The story of the tailor: The limping young man from Baghdad and the hairdresser . Chopped off hands also appear in The Tale of the Second Mendicant Monk , The Tale of the Jewish Doctor: The Young Man from Mosul and the Murdered Lady .
The text mentions Irdabb as the grain measure and the dirham as the monetary unit , the Cairo city gate Bab Suweila .
literature
- Claudia Ott (Ed.): A thousand and one nights. How it all started Based on the oldest Arabic manuscript in the edition by Muhsin Mahdi, first translated into German and appended by Claudia Ott. Title of the original Arabic edition: The Thousand And One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-14611-1 , pp. 307-325 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).