Note 42 — Chapter II
Daniel De Leon translation
A poem of Albrecht von Johansdorf, in the collection of "Minnesang-Fruehling" (Collection of Lachman and Moritz Haupt; Leipsic, 1857; S. Hirtel), has this passage:
"waere ez niht unstaete der Zwein wiben wolte sin fur eigen jehen, bei diu tougenliche? sprechet, herre, wurre ez iht? (man sol ez den man erlouben und den vrouwen nicht.)"
The openness, with which two distinct rights, according to sex, are here considered a matter of course, corresponds with views that are found in force even to this day.