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The role-playing supplement Erech and the Paths of the Dead is set in 1640 of the Third Age, about mid way between the time of the broken oath and the events of The Lord of the Rings. The kingdom of the oath-breakers is long gone, replaced by Rohan and Gondor , and the supplement describes in detail the Vale of Erech at the southern end of the ...
"The Function of the Oath in the Ancient Near Eastern International Treaty". American Journal of International Law. 72 (4): 815– 829. doi:10.2307/2199778. ISSN 0002-9300. JSTOR 2199778. S2CID 147546223. Murnane, William J. (1990). The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak (PDF). Studies in ...
The oath-breakers were cursed for their treachery, their spirits unable to depart from Middle Earth until they fulfilled their oath to the True King. As that generation died and became undead spirits, those still alive sought to escape the curse by moving away, into the southern reaches of the Misty Mountains , an area that became known as ...
Such punishments could extend beyond just the oath-breakers themselves to their offspring. According to Herodotus, the Spartan king Leotychidas claimed that Horkos (through a nameless son) would punish those who foreswore an oath, or even considered doing so, by destroying all a man's family and household. [12]
Odds bodkins is an archaic English minced oath of the Middle Ages and later.. Odds bodkins is generally considered to probably be a euphemism for "God's body" [1] (or possibly "God's dear body"), [2] although "God's dagger" [2] or "God's [crucifixion] nails" [3] has also been suggested as a possible source, as "bodkin" was current in the Middle Ages as a term for many small sharp implements ...
Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in the second major trial of far-right extremists accused of plotting to forcibly ...
There, Oath Keepers stashed dozens of boxes and bags packed to the brim with weapons and ammunition. They carried firearms in dollies and carts draped with blankets so as not to alarm hotel staff.
Similarly, Baruch Epstein, in his Torah Temimah, understands the oath to only include a forceful mass immigration, [58] and Ishtori Haparchi in his Kaftor Vaferach [59] understands the oath to mean immigration with intent to conquer. Isaac Leon ibn Zur in his Megillat Ester on Nachmanides also understands the oath as prohibiting conquest. [60]