Nick Brooke writes in reply to Pam Carlson:
> I think it was Paul Reilly or Loren Miller who initially proposed
> marriage-by-abduction (cf. mediaeval France for examples, esp. those collected
> in Georges Duby's "The Knight, the Lady and the Priest) as a Carmanian model,
> now ritualised in most cases (part of the wedding procession has the groom
> racing his in-laws from their castle back to his own, with his bride slung
> across the saddle), but commemorating an earlier situation where genuine
> abduction of unwilling brides was accepted as the norm.
Giving credit where it is due, this was Paul's idea. Anybody think
that in some weddings this degenerates to the in-laws riding behind
the newlyweds clashing their swords on their shields, whooping and
hollering, and just making a lot of loud noises? Anybody think they
simply string noisemakers off of the groom's saddle and let the
newlyweds make their own racket?
whoah!
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