Note 15 — III. THE CONSEQUENCES OF OVER-PRODUCTION.
Charles H. Kerr translation
These gigantic feasts lasted for weeks. Don Rodrigo de Lara wins his bride by expelling the Moors from old Calatrava, and the Romancero relates the story:
Las bodas fueron en Burgos Las tornabodas en Salas: En bodas y tornabodas Pasaron siete semanas Tantas vienen de las gentes Que no caben por las plazas
(The wedding was at Bourges, the infaring at Salas. In the wedding and the infaring seven weeks were spent. So many people came that the town could not hold them...).
The men of these seven-weeks weddings were the heroic soldiers of the wars of independence.