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Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escapeFaithless wife and paramour throw hero overboardFaithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.)Betrayal of husband's secret by his wifeThe faithless resuscitated wife. Husband at great sacrifice has brought his wife back to life. She immediately deserts him and plots with a paramour against his life. (Cf. K2213.2.)Faithless wife transforms husbandFaithless wife betrays husband to her fatherFaithless queen aids lover to dispossess kingFaithless wife incites sons to make war upon fatherFaithless wife tricks husband into setting lover freeTreacherous queen tricks king into bestowing kingdom upon her sonYoung queen murders her old husband in order to get a new oneQueen kills her husband as revenge of his killing of her father and brotherQueen deceives her husband as revenge for his killing of her lover and brother (Helgi.)Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back

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