Note 845 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Æthelb., 77: Schmid, Gesetze, 8, 9. Liebermann, 7, translates: "Wenn jemand eine Jungfrau zur Ehe kauft." Another provision of this code reads: "If a free man lies with a free man's wife, let him buy her with her wergeld, and procure with his own property another woman and bring her home to him (the wronged husband)": Æthelred, 31: Schmid, 4, 5. Cf. Liebermann's ed., 5. See Roeder, Die Familie bei den Angelsachsen, 15 ff., 24 ff.