[531] Dargun, op. cit., 102, who refers to the legend of Launcelot and the song of Laudine and Iwein: Gervinus, Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung, 5th ed., I, 447, 449. For the same practice in German songs and epics see Dargun, op. cit., 119.
[532] McLennan, op. cit., I, 68; Dargun, op. cit., 102.
[533] Lord Kames, History of Man (Edinburgh, 1807), I, 449: McLennan, op. cit., I, 18; Lubbock, op. cit., 125; Dargun, Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 103.
[534] Dargun, op. cit., 102, 103.
[535] Piers, Description of Westmeath, quoted by Lubbock, 26, 27; see also Dargun, op. cit., 103.
[536] Lubbock, op. cit., 115, 116.
[537] Post, Geschlechtsgenossenschaft, 58; Lubbock, op. cit., 114-16; McLennan, op. cit., I, 13-15. For symbols of rape in India see Kohler, in ZVR., VIII, 91, 114 (Dekkan); IX, 325 (Bengal); X, 74-77 (Bombay).
[538] For the Slavs see Dargun, op. cit., 103 ff.; and for the Germans, ibid., 111-40; Düringsfeld, Hochzeitsbuch, 22 ff., 65 ff., 113 ff., passim.
[539] This custom, in some form, prevails throughout Europe: Dargun, op. cit., 107 ff., 135 ff. On all these practices compare Schroeder, Hochzeitsbräuche, 57 ff.
[540] "In Schweden wird die Braut an manchen Orten vom Bräutigam und seinen Gehilfen tief im Heu versteckt gefunden."—Dargun, op. cit., 132; Düringsfeld, Hochzeitsbuch, 9.