Wedding

Norse tradition

• Wedding appears in Norse tradition.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda stages the false wedding that recovers the hammer. A named wedding episode in that poem, not every marriage rite dump and not Brísingamen alone.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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• Veil is used in Wedding.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda uses the bridal veil as disguise-gear in the false wedding that recovers the hammer. A named wedding-instrument use of the veil, not every mystery-cloth dump and not the appears_in tradition seat alone.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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• Key is used in Wedding.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda hangs the bride’s keys on the false bride as wedding-house gear in the hammer-recovery feast. A named wedding-instrument use of the key, not lock-hardware type-names and not the appears_in tradition seat alone.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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• Linen is used in Wedding.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda seats linen bridal cloth among the woman’s dress prepared for the false wedding. A named wedding-instrument use of linen, not wool as fleece cloth and not the appears_in tradition seat alone.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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• Wedding Vow is used in Wedding.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda stages bridal and wedding-vow speech in the false Freyja wedding. A named use of wedding-vow in wedding, not vow as general binding speech and not every marriage contract.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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Vedic tradition

• Wedding appears in Vedic tradition.

  Ṛgveda 10.85 (and related marriage speech) seats the wedding among hymn rite — the joining of households under divine witness. A named Vedic wedding in that corpus, not a generic feast dump and not a later Dharmaśāstra checklist alone.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Roman religion

• Wedding appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats marriage speech in Dido’s cave union, Lavinia’s destined wedding, and related bridal omen. Wedding as rite and fate-knot in that Roman epic, not Norse/Vedic wedding walks restated.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Celtic tradition

• Cup is used in Wedding.

  Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion seats drinking-cups among the feast-gear of the marriage quest’s close — wedding hospitality in that Welsh prose. A cup used in that wedding feast, not a sacred_to deity mint and not the Grail as a quest-object.

  from Anonymous (Welsh prose); Sioned Davies (translation) · The Mabinogion, medieval Welsh manuscripts; Davies trans. 2007

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• Christening is associated with Wedding.

  In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, very rich cakes such as wedding and christening cakes usually take a layer of almond icing over the top — christening and wedding share that iced-cake dressing.

  from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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