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• Gretna Green: a small town in the south of Scotland, on the border with England, teh location of many runaway marriages. These began in 1753 when an Act of Parliament, Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, was passed in England, which stated that if both parties to a marriage were not at least 21 years old, then consent to the marriage had to be given by the parents. This Act did not apply in Scotland where it was possible for boys to get married at 14 and girls at 12 years old with or without parental consent. This led to many elopers fleeing England and making for the first Scottish village they came to — Gretna Green.

• Gráinne: the daughter of Cormac mac Airt in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. In the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool) and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.