Urðr

For other uses, see Urd (disambiguation).

A poster for the Norwegian women's magazine Urd by Andreas Bloch and Olaf Krohn.

Urðr (Old Norse "fate"^[1]) is a Norn in Norse mythology. Along with Verðandi (possibly "happening" or "present"^[2]) and Skuld (possibly "debt" or "future"^[3]), Urðr makes up a trio of Norns that are described as deciding the fates of people. Urðr is attested in stanza 20 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá and the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning.

The name is sometimes anglicised as Urd.

[edit] Modern influence

She was used by Japanese Kosuke Fujishima in his famous comic Oh My Goddess!.

Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell. ISBN 0 304 34520 2

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