the first wife (Tale 45)

Role: wife · First appears: Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk

Life events

• The first wife left her husband and went with the fifth man.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the husband (Tale 45)
  • “This fifth man asked her to go home with him. She liked him so much that she did not feel like refusing him, so she went with him.”
• The first wife entered the lake with the Elk, leaving her husband behind.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the husband (Tale 45) the Elk
  • “The Elk and the woman went right into this lake.”
• The first wife came out of the lake and sent her husband home.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the husband (Tale 45)
  • “At last the woman came out from the lake, for she felt sorry for her husband.”
• The first wife told her husband she could never leave the lake again.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the husband (Tale 45)
  • “My husband, I can never leave this lake any more.”

Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk

• married with the husband (Tale 45) “There she stayed, while her husband went out day after day.”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.