The Merry Wives
Three wives – and what they think of their husbands
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The tale, often known as The Most Foolish Husband, is told throughout Scandinavia. But this Danish variant, from Sven GrundtvigÂ’s Danske Folkeeventyr vol. 1 (1876) handles the three tricks particularly cleverly.
I found it in Folk and FairyTales from Denmark. Svend Grundtvig and his collectors (2017, Stephen Badman).
My thanks to Stephen for generously sending me his book!
More Danish tales translated by Stephen Badman.
The recording was made at my annual performance at halbNeun Theater, Darmstadt, in October 2017.
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