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The Old [[English]] [[poem]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wanderer_(poem) The Wanderer] states that "Wyrd bið ful aræd": "[[Fate]] remains wholly [[inexorable]]". The poem [[Beowulf]] tells us that "Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel!": "Fate goes ever as she shall!". Wyrd is the fate (Norse ørlǫg) woven by the Norns, the [[female]] [[personification]]s of fate or [[destiny]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology Norse mythology]. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluspa Voluspa] 20, one of the poems of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda Poetic Edda], the three Norns "set up the [[laws]]", "decided on the lives of the [[children]] of time" and "promulgate their Ørlǫg"[2].
The Old [[English]] [[poem]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wanderer_(poem) The Wanderer] states that "Wyrd bið ful aræd": "[[Fate]] remains wholly [[inexorable]]". The poem [[Beowulf]] tells us that "Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel!": "Fate goes ever as she shall!". Wyrd is the fate (Norse ørlǫg) woven by the Norns, the [[female]] [[personification]]s of fate or [[destiny]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology Norse mythology]. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluspa Voluspa] 20, one of the poems of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda Poetic Edda], the three Norns "set up the [[laws]]", "decided on the lives of the [[children]] of time" and "promulgate their Ørlǫg"[2].
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg Frigg], on the other hand, while she "knows all ørlǫg", "says it not herself" (Lokasenna 30). ørlǫglausa "ørlǫg-less" occurs in Voluspa 17 in reference to trees (as opposed to [[humans]]).
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg Frigg], on the other hand, while she "knows all ørlǫg", "says it not herself" (Lokasenna 30). ørlǫglausa "ørlǫg-less" occurs in Voluspa 17 in reference to trees (as opposed to [[humans]]).
==See also==
*'''''[[Anomaly]]'''''
==References==
==References==
* Barnhart, Robert K. (1995) The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology. Harper Collins ISBN 0062700847
* Barnhart, Robert K. (1995) The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology. Harper Collins ISBN 0062700847
