Urðr

"Became", "Happened." One of the three Norns, sister of Verðandi and Skuld, who established laws and determine man's destiny, according to Völuspá:

Thence come maidens,

much knowing,

three from the hall,

which under that tree stands;

Urd hight the one,

the second Verdandi,

on a tablet they graved

Skuld the third.

Laws they established,

life allotted

to the sons of men;

destinies pronounced.

Of the three norns, she is most frequently mentioned in the poems. See also Urðarbrunnr.

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