Beschrijving
The Eaten Heart. A knight woos a married woman. The husband kills his wife’s lover (suitor) and orders the cook to prepare his heart and to serve it to his wife. When she praises the meal, he tells her what she has eaten, remarking that her lover pleases her dead as well as alive.
Thereupon she jumps out the window (refuses any food, dies from pain). The husband regrets his deed (is punished by the ruler, by the woman’s relatives) [Q478.1].
Thereupon she jumps out the window (refuses any food, dies from pain). The husband regrets his deed (is punished by the ruler, by the woman’s relatives) [Q478.1].
Motief
Q478.1
Commentaar
Documented in the Middle Ages, e.g. Tristan Romance (ca. 1170). For another early version see Boccaccio, Decamerone (IV,1). Ancient Greek stories include similar motifs of unwitting cannibalism, e.g. see Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Sophocles, Aias.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
992
Subgenre
sprookje