Die faule Magd

In the middle ages the riffraff was hired as a maid or servant, and was dependent on the goodwill of the farmers. If diligence and decency did not meet his expectations, he had the right to punish the rabble hard.

Edda also gets painful to feel. Once again she is sleeping in broad daylight in the hay instead of doing her work.

This the farmer can not tolerate and must punish the maid merciless.