Can someone help me with this basic sentence?


I found this in a 小学校's tales book, the line is this

> ごさくは、決して【けっして】ごはんを食べない **という** およめさんをもらいましたが...

I want to know what is the full meaning but especially the use of という in that
context (Is a Yokai "horror" story).




It's the quotative particle と followed by a verb 言う. So one possible
translation (a literal one) would be:

> Gosaku married a woman who said she never ate meals, but ...

But という like this has a distinct meaning of "allegedly", "reportedly" or
"according to someone". See [what is the difference between である ＆
という](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33563/5010) . So another possible
translation would be:

> Gosaku married a woman who was claimed never to eat meals, but ...

The natural interpretation will depend on the context (in particular, whether
she was introduced to him by someone else in the villeage). But the difference
of the two should not be important in the story line, anyway.

