Beschrijving
The king marries a maiden of the lower class. She promises to be always complacent. The king puts her to the proof by making her believe that he has killed their children and married another wife [H461]. Cf. Types 712, 881, 900.
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
**Käte Laserstein Der Griseldisstoff in der Weltlitteratur (Weimar, 1926)
Ilse von Stach, Griseldis (1922)
**H. Siefkin Das geduldige Weib in der engiischen Literatur bis auf Shakespeare (Leipzig, 1903)
**Cate Studies in Philology XXIX 389ff.
*Hibbard Medieval Romance in England 289 n. 9
Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXVXXXVI 290
Hdwb. d. Märchens s.v. »Geduldsprüfung»
Köhler-Bolte II 501, 534
*Philippson FFC L 48ff.