text: This character is distracted by the sale of a belt buckle and later rejects a marriage offer from a chaplain.
full_question: This character is distracted by the sale of a belt buckle and later rejects a marriage offer from a chaplain. One son of this character works as an army paymaster and is captured on his way to hide a cash box, and another child of this character is executed for murdering peasants. In scenes that Margarethe Steffin may have co-written, this character hears Yvette singing "The Fraternization Song" before her mute daughter beats a drum to warn the town of Halle of an approaching enemy. In the first scene of her namesake play, this character foretells the fate of that daughter, Kattrin, as well as the deaths of Eilif and Swiss Cheese. For 10 points, name this matriarch who hauls a bread cart during the Thirty Years War in Bertolt Brecht's play about her and Her Children.
first_sentence: This character is distracted by the sale of a belt buckle and later rejects a marriage offer from a chaplain.
raw_answer: Mother Courage [or Canteen Anna Fierling; or Anna Fierling]