The history of marriage and the myth of Friedelehe
Ruth Mazo Karras
The idea that Friedelehe and Muntehe constituted two distinct forms of Germanic marriage was based upon an attempt to reconstruct common culture with scraps evidence from widely different times places. A thorough re-examination the sources for institutions were posited, on this now outmoded methodology, reveals no transfer Munt, or guardianship, distinguished between types marriage, except perhaps in Lombard Italy, under influence Roman law. a dos is institution without one not attested until Carolingian period.
Early Medieval Europe