05/07/2026
Saw this come across my feed and it brings up a great point often debated in our community.
Keeping our oaths is of course a noble idea generally speaking, but there are exceptions. This idea often comes up when people try to compare Odin to Loki to justify Loki worship by saying that Odin is also a deceiver. The difference is that Odin deceives only his enemies, not the people he shares frith with.
Another example is that generally speaking marriage is an oath you should never break. But what about when your partner doesn't uphold their end of the bargain to love honor and cherish you? Maybe they take you for granted and begin to cheat on you, or drink or do drugs and abuse you and your children, for a long time and with no desire to change their harmful behavior. In a situation like this the behavior of the other person voids the oath because they have essentially already broken it. How can one uphold an already broken oath?
In short, your relationship to the other party and their behavior play a key role in how an oath should be interpreted.
