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"Idle" readings
Nov. 10th, 2007 10:39 pmMostly at home -- waiting out some visceral discomfort. Should be better by tomorrow. Could not rally for St. Andrews/Investiture, but I'm going to 100 Minutes to sing at feast for Frau Baumhecker next week. It's not like I'm isolating myself.
I hadn't cracked open my copy of "Medieval Comic Tales" for a long time. Paged through it this evening and found "Dom Hugh of Leicester". According to the biblio notes, "Dom Hugh", a tale about a lustful monk who gets "killed" multiple times is, along with my beloved "Arabian Nights" tale of the Sultan's jester-- this tale is common enough that it's classified in a book called "Types of the Folktale".
Type 1537.
How romantic 8)
According to both the book and the Internet, there are several French fabliaux about multiple murders of one "victim". According to an article kept on JSTOR (of which I can only access a sample without going back to the library computers), there are Hispanic versions.
Not "A" version -- VERSIONS. Another site tell American folkloric versions of the tale.
And that's all without mentioning "Weekend at Bernie's".
(BTW, "Nuts and Mutton" is Type 1791 8P
I hadn't cracked open my copy of "Medieval Comic Tales" for a long time. Paged through it this evening and found "Dom Hugh of Leicester". According to the biblio notes, "Dom Hugh", a tale about a lustful monk who gets "killed" multiple times is, along with my beloved "Arabian Nights" tale of the Sultan's jester-- this tale is common enough that it's classified in a book called "Types of the Folktale".
Type 1537.
How romantic 8)
According to both the book and the Internet, there are several French fabliaux about multiple murders of one "victim". According to an article kept on JSTOR (of which I can only access a sample without going back to the library computers), there are Hispanic versions.
Not "A" version -- VERSIONS. Another site tell American folkloric versions of the tale.
And that's all without mentioning "Weekend at Bernie's".
(BTW, "Nuts and Mutton" is Type 1791 8P
