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Of the Laplanders Contrafts, {yc. tt$
again Some preSent, So that he who had received one or two markes of
Silver, returns for a gift again one or two Rain-deers : So that it comet to
paSs, that the Laplanders., who can gratifie the friends and kindred with
numerous preSents, if they wed a rich Laplanders Daughter, come to great
wealth in Ram-deer by this kind of marriage. TheSe are the cheif things the
Laplanders obServe in their contrails and marriages, which before we quite
leave, we may take notice first, that it is unlawful among them, to marry
a wife too near in blood. And they have So Special a regard to the degrees
of consanguinity and affinity, that they never request marriage in the
prohibited ones. And again ’tis unlawful, having one wife to marry another,
or when one is married to put her away, by Divorce. Polygamy ahd
Divorce were never heard cf among the Laplanders, neither in the time of
Paganifm, faies Toriitui, nor afterwards, but they alwaies observed
marriage honestly and like Christians, yet in former daies perhaps they did not
altogether abhor the communicating their wives; whom they permitted to
strangers efpecially and guefts. So indeed writes Herberjlemus. But John
Torntut mentions an instance of later date, and the Testimony too ofa
Laplander cf Luhla, tho he doubts to give credit to him. ’Twas reported
to me, faies he, that in the time of my PredeceSTor of Luhla-Lapmark , a
Certain immodest Laplander, came to lodg with another, in
Torne-Lap-wark., a civil honest man, as was his w hole family , who could read books,
and lived a pious life, for which he was stiled by fc orners Zitan Ei/fmp. Then
the Man of Luhla, when he had diforderedhimfelf with drinking Spirit of
Wine, addrelfed himfelf to his holts wife, in hope of debauching her, buc
becauft there were there prefent two officers, who had Spirit of Wine to
fell, the Zuah Bifhop call’d for them, and told them the fellows
defign,-defiring likewife that they being Ministers of the State, would apprehend
and bind him: they immediately bound him to a Tree, and left him there
for a whole Winter night together, to be frozen with cold. At last he was
forced to regain his liberty with mony , and pleaded it as an excufr, that it
was the cuftom in Luli-Lapmark , that if any perfon vifited another, the
enterrainerpermitted fuch familiarity with his Wife. Thus faies Tcrnteus, but
doubtingly, for the fellow might have only framed this for his own excufe,
’tis certain no other perfon has taken notice of it in them of Luhla, and the
other Laplanders are fo ignorant of this communion of their wives, that
they cannot endure they fhouldlook upon other men.The Laplanders d^eU
ling towards Norway at the river Torna are fo jealous , that if a Woman
chance to meet a man, and fpeak but a few words to him, they immediatly
fall into a fufpicion of her.
CHAP.
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