Well of Urd - Fate - Norns
Fate= Wyrd/Urd Fate/Destiny is very close to the word WORD. Well of URD might as well be the Word. Each day supposedly the Gods go down and meet in council around the Well of Urd. It is the well next to a root from the Tree of Life Yggdrasil. Even the Gods themselves were subject to fate. Norns, beings who shaped fate, a group, some sources say a Trio of very Wise Women whose magical abilities were unmatched by those of any other being. Lived at the Base of Yggdrasil the great tree in the center of the Cosmos, where they carved the fate of all inhabitants of cosmos into the tree, or in another image, wove them with thread, cutting the last strand at the end of the persons life. Struggling against ones fate is as pointless as rowing a boat against a fierce wind. After Ragnarok it was fated that Nothing would remain but Nothing itself. Odin fought to defeat the Norns and defeat Fate itself. The paradigmatic model for this attitude was the way the gods were to approach their ow...


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