[ **up: [[Temporary marriage]]** ] --- # Trial marriage - [[Handfasting (Celtic trial marriage)]] --- ## Scotland [[Trial marriages in medieval Scotland shouldn't be considered within the framework of canon law but, rather, in spite of it.|Trial marriages in medieval Scotland shouldn't be considered within the framework of canon law but, rather, in spite of it.]][^1] [[The 'Old Statistical Account of Scotland' assigns the annual Lammas Festival as the loci for trial marriages.|The 'Old Statistical Account of Scotland' assigns the annual Lammas Festival as the loci for trial marriages.]][^2] [^1]: Lynda Pinney Domino, ‘[[Domino. ‘He kept her the space of a year_ Celtic secular marriage in Late Medieval Scotland’, 2003.|He kept her the space of a year: Celtic secular marriage in Late Medieval Scotland]]’ (Master’s thesis, University of Iowa, 2003), p. 6. [^2]: Lynda Pinney Domino, ‘[[Domino. ‘He kept her the space of a year_ Celtic secular marriage in Late Medieval Scotland’, 2003.|He kept her the space of a year: Celtic secular marriage in Late Medieval Scotland]]’ (Master’s thesis, University of Iowa, 2003), p. 28.