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 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...

 light elves may travel by lightways, an archway or doorway made by trees, branches, bushes. Such act as light bending portals. Dark elves travel by darkways, a cave entrance, crags in the rocks, holes in the ground, holes in a tree. stone archways.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Herbs_Charm The charm refers to at least nine plants. Scholars have proposed various translations for the plant names, including the following: Mucgwyrt  Mugwort ( Artemisia vulgaris ) Wegbrade  Plantain ( Plantago ) Stune  Lamb's cress ( Cardamine hirsuta ) Stiðe  Nettle ( Urtica ) Attorlaðe  (identified as cockspur grass ( Echinochloa crus-galli ) by R. K. Gordon; [1]  partially defined by others as betony ( Stachys officinalis ) [ citation needed ] Mægðe  Mayweed ( Matricaria ), a genus which includes German chamomile ( Matricaria chamomilla ) Wergulu  Crab-apple ( Malus ) Fille  (identified as thyme ( Thymus vulgaris ) by R. K. Gordon; [1]  defined by others as chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) [ citation needed ] ) Finule  Fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare ) At the end of the charm, prose instructions are given to take the above-mentioned plants, crush them to dust, and to mix them with old...