PAGAN WEDDING.
A NAZI CEREMONY STORM TROOPER’S MARRIAGE. (Times Cables.) Received May 27, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, May 26. The Times’s Berlin correspondent says that the first now pagan wedding to achieve publicity was that of a Storm Troop corporal, who was married at Pforzhein. The assembly rooms wero draped with the swastika flag and guards of honour flanked the marriage table, which was adorned with pagan emblems before a flaming bowl. The “Wedding Chorus” from “Lohengrin” was sung and a Storm Trooper gave the pagan marriage address from “Edda,” interspersed with antiplional chants.
Tlio couple received bread as a symbol of the earth’s germinative strength, and salt as a symbol of purity. After that they plighted their iroth and donned rings.
“Edda” is the name given two Icelandic works, one in verse, the other in prose, dating from the 13th century. They arc our source of information about Scandinavian mythology.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 May 1935, Page 7
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150PAGAN WEDDING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 May 1935, Page 7
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