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l t£ Of the Laplanders Contrails, &c.
As they come to viSit their MiftrefTes, they are necessitated to bring a«
long with them Some Spirit of Wine, as a lingular and moft acceptable
prefent, and Tobacco too. But if in the meanwhile, as it often falls out, the
father intends not to beftow his daughter upon the man that hath made
pre-tenfions to her, he feldomrefufes rhem,but defers thepofitive anfwertill
the year following, that he may the oftner entertain himfelf with the Spirit
of Wine the Suiter brings along with him. And thus he delaies his anfwer
from one year to the other ,• till the Suiter perceive himfelf cheated , and
be constrained to require at his hands his charges made to no purpofe.
There is then no other remedy to be taken, then bringing the bulinefs
before the Judg, where the Maids Father is fentenced to refund either the
entire fum, or half of it, as the cafe stands. Where withal we muftobferve
this, that the expences made by the Suiter on the Spirit of Wine, at his firft
arrival, do not fall under this compenfation, but he alone Hands to the loSs
of that. But if after the downright refuSal of the Maid, he of his own accord
will Show his liberality, he nny try whit luck he will have at his own
peril. If all things happen conformable to his willies, then fome fet day is
appointed for the wedding. The day before it, all the kindred and
Neighbors as well of the’ Bridegroom as Bride refort to her parents hur, and the
Bridegroom prefents them all with wedding gifts, about which they had
agreed, and of which mention is made abcve.
The Bridegroom is bound to prefent the Father with a filvercup, to
drink in ; this is the first of thofe they call Stjckf. The Second is a large
Kettle, either of Copper or Alchy my. The third, a bed or at least hanloin
bedding. The prefents for the Mother are, first a girdle of filver, fecondly
a Robe ofhonorfuchas they ufe to call Vcfpi. Thirdly a Whisk, which they
wear about their neck, and let it hang down to their brefi, interlaced all
about with boffes of Silver, and this they call Krakf- Thefe are the prefencs
for the Father and Mother: belides he bestows upon the Brothers, Sifters,
and all the near kindred, filver Spoons, Silver bofTes, and Some other Such
kind of things of filver, for each of them muftbeprefented with fome gift
by the Bridegroom, if he mean to obtain his Bride. Thefe are the prefents,
which the Bridegroom is more efpecially bound to make to his Father and
Mother in law that are to be, and the reft of the kindred. And he makes
them in his father inlaws hur, in the Sight of all there. The day following
the wedding is celebrated, firft by the ceremonious joining of the Prieft
in the Church, afterwards by a fet dinner. The new Wife together with
the Bridegroom walk along, bo;h drefs’d in the beft clothes they can
procure at their own charges. For ’tis looked upon among them as unhanfom to
make ufe of the borrowed cloths ofothers,unlefs it be wool ail have elswhere
Shown. They take faies TornsM fo great pleafure in good cloth of what ever
color, that as far as their patrimony will permit,they procure their
extraordinary apparel and feftival Garments of that kind : who declares exprefsly
that their feftival apparel, or that wnich they wore on more folemn daies,
was not of skins but rich cloth. Thefe Garments the Bridegroom girds up
with a Silver girdle, butthe Bride firft loofes her hair: andthe fillet
wherewithflie bound it up together before, lhe gives to the Virgin tiur is next a
kin to her: afterwards; on her bare head, and ioofe hair She puts a kind of a
Silver fillet gilt over, or two, fuch as is the v. omens cuftom to wear at o-
ther
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