Note 932 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Sohm, Eheschliessung, 101 ff. The text of this extremely interesting marriage ritual is printed in Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 26, 27; and in Sohm, Anhang, III, 319, 320. For a description of these early rituals see Weinhold, Deutsche Frauen, I, 340-48.