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Two young lovers reunite after years of forced separation and decide to run away together but are caught by the husband. Neighbours stall the ensuing fight and an elder binds together the two men’s clothes, symbolically chaining them together, and tells them they must travel to the capital to stand trial in the queen’s court. The story illustrates the old all-encompassing oral tradition, which included legal, political and socio-cultural systems in 19th century Ethiopia.