TE000672

Arnoldus Leodiensis

Tubach:

Tubach Frederic C., 1969. Index exemplorum. A Handbook of medieval religious tales, Helsinki.:

• #647 (2322 = Erreur) : Birth prophecy fulfilled. A emperor, staying one night in a forester’s hut, is awakened by a voice which tells him that a child, who will succeed him in his empire, is being born. He learns next morning that the forester’s wife has just given birth to a son. His emissaries, refraining from killing child, place him in a hollow tree; he is found and adopted by a nobleman who later brings him to court. The emperor sends him to the empress with a letter bidding her put the bearer to death, but on the way his host alters it into an order to wed him to the princess. Var.: A king casts his daughter’s illegitimate son into the woods, the pig sty, and the ocean to try to destroy him. When the son survives, the king names him Avidus and makes him his heir. Avidus is the first to tame oxen to the plow. Alpha # 593, # 654; Gesta (I) # 149; Gesta (M) # 29, # 48; Gesta (O) # 20, # 42; H198 # 42, H231 # 19, H254 # 48, H263 # 21, H436 # 74, H703 # 21; Katona # 20; Recull # 523; Violier # 20; Aa Th.: 930; S.T.: H1510.– BP IV, 137; Dawkins, Mod. Greek Folktales # 50; Grimm # 3, 295; Migne, CXCVIII, cols. 967 971; Monatsbericht der k. preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin, 1869), pp. 10 48; Toldo, Archiv. vol. CXVIII, p. 345; Zs. 17, 339; 20, 95. (© Frederic C. Tubach)