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 own doom at Ragnarok. 

For the Vikings, the world as they found it was enchanted – that is, they didn’t feel the need to seek salvation from the world, but instead delighted in, and marveled at, “the way things are,” including what we today would call both “nature” and “culture.” Their religion and myths didn’t sugarcoat the sordidness, strife, and unfairness of earthly life, but instead acknowledged it and praised the attempt to master it through the accomplishment of great deeds for the benefit of oneself and one’s people. A life full of such deeds was what “the good life” was for the Vikings. (from norse Mythology for smart people)

My thoughts: if there is any contest in a day, WIN. By the most courageous and hearty way possible. That you may rejoice/boast in your achievement. That's the way things are. 

Germanic pagans’ sense of deep enchantment in the world went hand-in-hand with their being hard-headed pragmatists, not starry-eyed idealists. That is, they sought to advance their interests within the world as they found it rather than to fundamentally alter its character – to “save the world,” as we might put it today. There were no pagan Germanic “revolutionaries” of the sort we find in modern political movements. We can imagine that they would have reacted with mocking laughter to notions of “social justice” and the like. (NMFSP)

After all, the ancient Germanic peoples believed that the unfolding of events was directed by a blind, implacable fate.[4] In their worldview, you ultimately couldn’t decide what happened to you; all you could do was react to your lot with honor and greatness or dishonor and smallness. In such a perspective, there’s not really any room for “saving the world” – only for doing the best you can in the midst of it. (NMFSP)

• 3 sisters of narfi

• Guarded roots from danger

• Coated roots

• Spin cloth of destiny

• Seem to record rather than ordain it

• Tried to put off ragnarok (maybe)