History

How the Germanic tribes dealt with adultery, told to us by the Romans Follow the description below: "Very rare for them is adultery, whose punishment is immediate and is in the husband's power. After cutting the adulteress's hair and undressing her, he banishes her from the house in the presence of her relatives and then flogs her throughout the village ." "Loss of chastity finds no indulgence; neither beauty, nor youth, nor wealth will obtain a husband for the guilty." - Cornelius Tacitus, Germania and its tribes