A small army of Northlanders once had fled across the Baranduin here during the Forest Wars of the mid-Second Age.They had offended the Wood-elves and were besieged in camps around Willowbottom. The Sirannar casted wardings about the refugees and waited patiently for their surrender . However, the Eriadorians expected, mistakenly, to be sold into Numenorean slavery by the Elves. Over the course of a fierce winter, most of them starved to death. The bodies were thrown through broken ice into the deepest part of the swamp. The last and strongest of the Northland priests suspected some of his brethren of cannibalism. When he knew he was dying, he pronounced a horrible curse on his fellows and on all those he blamed; for their death and their damnation.The remaining Northlanders, including tho