The New Year's Resolution

The mediaeval tradition of the peacock vow is debated whether it was a real thing or not, and if it was really related to new year. It supposedly required each night gathered at a new year's feast, to place a hand on a peacock, alive or dead and roasted. Charles dickens wrote this about the tradition. Maybe not every night lived up to this ideal or kept their peacock vow, just like most of us don't keep a new year’s resolution. Though, chivalry was a code of brotherhood, loyalty and mutual support. We may not be blocking sword swings or paying ransoms for captured friends, but we could be giving up our seats

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