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396 which corresponds with this. The woman wants to get rid of old Hildebrand, her husband, because he is short and dark, so she sends him to Tellerland, and the parson gives him his horse, and a hundred thalers away with him. His gossip meets him, opens his eyes, and takes him back with him in his basket. The gossip asks the woman where her husband is, and she replies—

The parson says—

Then the gossip begins—

On which old Hildebrand bestirs himself, and says—

This jest is, however, undoubtedly connected with the saga of Old Hildebrand und Frau Ute. He is the traveller in many lands, who comes home and sometimes finds his wife faithful, and sometimes unfaithful, just as, according to some sagas, Ulysses was deceived by Penelope. For this parallelism compare Hildebrands Lied, p. 77. In the story of Mrs. Fox, too, the cunning old fox who is lying under the bench, has at one time to drive out the wooer alone, and at another his wife and the wooer too; and that story bears an unmistakable resemblance to ours. Compare Münster: Sagen, p. 215, Meier, No. 41, Pröhle's Kindermärchen, No. 63.

96.—.

Three hours' journey westward from Corvei, lies the Keuterberg, Köterberg, Teuteberg (which corresponds with the district of Teutoberg Forest lying not far away), on the summit of which the boundaries of Corvei, Hanover, and Lippe meet. It is of considerable height, and may easily command a view of more than forty leagues in circuit; lower down it is covered with wood. The peak itself is bare; occasionally it is bestrewn with large stones, and affords a scanty pasturage for sheep. Naturally many stories have been associated with it, and have thus been preserved. Round about the mountain lie six villages, and the story has been taken down in the dialect of one of these, with all its irregular two-fold