Note 887 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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For the North Germans, Lehmann, Verlobung und Hochzeit, 80-88; Weinhold, Altnordisches Leben, 243-52; and in general, idem, Deutsche Frauen, 368 ff., 406 ff., 399. The third part of the ceremony is the Bettbeschreitung, or bedding of the newly married pair. Normally this takes place in the bridegroom's house, as according to northern custom: Lehmann, 85-87; but sometimes it appears to have taken place in the bride's home before the home-bringing: Weinhold, I, 399 ff. Cf. Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 22, 45, 64.