“Blond Eckbert” Tick in brief summary
The action takes place in the German city of Harz in the Middle Ages.
Blond Eckbert, a knight of forty, lives with his wife Bertha. They love each other, but they have no children. They live in seclusion, their guests are rare, except for a friend of the family Philip Walter.
One day after dinner, at the request of Ebert, Bertha tells Walter about the strange adventures of his youth. As a child she lived in the family of a poor shepherd and when she was eight years old she fled from the house to the forest, where she met the old woman who sheltered her. In the hut, along with the old woman, there lived a little dog and a bird in a shiny cage that sang the song: “Solitude is my pleasure. Today, tomorrow is always one pleasure for me alone.” The old woman often prayed and spoke strange words. Bertha fell in love with an old woman, and the dog and the bird became her friends. Four years later, the old woman discovered the secret: it turned out that every day the
After telling this story, in parting, Philip Walter says the following phrase: “Thank you, ma’am, I vividly imagine you with a strange bird and how you feed a small Stromiana.” Blond Eckbert begins to regret that he asked his wife to tell about the adventure, since it is from this evening that Walter seldom visits his friend’s castle, and Berthes gets very sick on nerves. Soon she tells her husband that she could never remember the nickname
Eckbert decides to kill Walter because of the doubts that tormented him about his friend’s loyalty. He meets him on a hunt in the woods and kills him from a crossbow. At the same time, Bertha dies in a fever. Ekbert gets acquainted with the knight Hugo, approaches him and admits to him in the murder of a friend. Above Ekbert hangs a curse, and he begins to go crazy: in every man now he sees Walter, his ghost constantly pursuing Eckbert.
During the journey he meets the same old woman whom his wife deceived in his youth. It turns out that the old witch is connected not only with Bertha, but also with Ebert himself, or rather with his father. She says to him: “Look how the crime entails punishment: it was I, and not anyone else, who was your friend Walter, your Hugo and Bertha was your sister. Once, in early childhood, did you hear how your father did not turn to please his wife To bring a daughter from her first marriage with her, but gave it to the shepherd. ” Lying on the ground, distraught Ebert dies, paying for the sins of his father and wife.
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