Wyrd

See also: Wyrd (homonymy)

The Wyrd is according to certain a word resulting from high-German of the verb weoran (to become), itself probably derived from an Indo-European root meaning to turn . According to some others, Wyrd would result from the Anglo-Saxon, for example, of the noirrois vyrð which results today in the " term; estime". It seems that there remains today only one term with the direction degenerated in the English language being the adjective " weird" who wants simply to say " bizarre" or " étrange".

This word can also derive from the Vieux norrois urdhr , i.e. the past. This term is associated with the Urd river and the Norne of last which bears the same name.

Örlog is a synonym of Wyrd .

Wyrd is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of the Scandinavian thought. It is produced by the Nornes, the three goddesses of the destiny who, the such Parques, permanently weave an infinite fabric whose each wire represents a being. Wyrd leads the universe and all the beings of the nine worlds are subjected there, even the gods. In the Scandinavian thought, the least grass bit has its wire and Wyrd holds account also destiny of the stones.

This wire network vibrates, with the liking of the births, the deaths and the upheavals. Each event modifying the vibration of a destiny can have an impact on other elements of the fabric because all are related the ones to the others.

It is the work of the soothsayer to detect and interpret the vibrations of Wyrd, useful work because the fabric is not fixed and it is always possible, in the Scandinavian thought, to inflect the destiny. Indeed, Norne of the future names Skuld, name which means which should occur . The wyrd is thus in short the world of the spirit.

Moired, the “destiny” in the ancient Greek Religion

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