Tapestry realized around 1470-1480 and now in the National Museum of Copenhagen. The image shows a Wild Man held with a chain by a young maiden. Around the Wild Man is the inscription: “Ich wil iemer wesen wild bis mich zemt ein frowen bild” (approximately: “I shall always be a wild being, but a woman’s image can appease me”), while around the woman the inscription is: “Ich truw ich wel dich zemen wol als ich billich sol” (“I believe that I shall tame you well, for I am reasonable, sensible”). It is possible that the artist would transmit a moral message, in which the woman represented moral rectitude dominating over the wild instincts. But it does not escape, however, the symbolic connection with the figures of Wild Men or Bear-Men who, during the Carnival feasts, are brought in the village chained and accompanied by a “tamer”, and who attempt to rush on the attending young women. The Wild Man represents the generative, fecundating energy, coming from outside (from “the woods”) and which breaks into the human world bringing new life and regeneration.

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