Draft of a preamble to wedding customs in this country # 81078
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A draft of a preface to the wedding customs in this country. By Eggert Ólafsson. Þorfinnur Skúlason and Örn Hrafnkelsson prepared the printing.
Appendices: Wedding customs used in the autumn of 1767 when the vice-attorney Mr. Eggert Ólafsson and his wife Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir were married - The Marriage of Eggert Ólafsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir. Recorded by Björn Halldórsson.
Eggert Ólafsson, a naturalist, barrister and poet, wrote Uppkast til forsagna um hruðvðusiðu hér áland (A Draft of Preliminaries on Wedding Customs in Iceland) and is believed to have written the book in 1757. The book was a kind of attempt to revive elegant and traditional wedding receptions and in it he presents ideas for restoring weddings in the spirit of the Middle Ages. Eggert himself held his wedding in that manner, when he married his cousin Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir in the autumn of 1767. At that time, weddings were called the wedding of the century, people said that they were held in the ancient style, with a rich appearance, fine food and drinks. In his book, Eggert describes exactly how to hold a wedding in the most noble of human customs with the accompanying mementos, food, drink, dancing, games and singing. Eggert died in 1768, only a year after his wedding, and this attempt to restore old customs failed, the old customs were not revived and never came back into fashion.
Appendices: Wedding customs used in the autumn of 1767 when the vice-attorney Mr. Eggert Ólafsson and his wife Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir were married - The Marriage of Eggert Ólafsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir. Recorded by Björn Halldórsson.
Eggert Ólafsson, a naturalist, barrister and poet, wrote Uppkast til forsagna um hruðvðusiðu hér áland (A Draft of Preliminaries on Wedding Customs in Iceland) and is believed to have written the book in 1757. The book was a kind of attempt to revive elegant and traditional wedding receptions and in it he presents ideas for restoring weddings in the spirit of the Middle Ages. Eggert himself held his wedding in that manner, when he married his cousin Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir in the autumn of 1767. At that time, weddings were called the wedding of the century, people said that they were held in the ancient style, with a rich appearance, fine food and drinks. In his book, Eggert describes exactly how to hold a wedding in the most noble of human customs with the accompanying mementos, food, drink, dancing, games and singing. Eggert died in 1768, only a year after his wedding, and this attempt to restore old customs failed, the old customs were not revived and never came back into fashion.