Examples
“The fellow said: ‘We’re making a big movie and putting together a band of famous musicians together called the wyrd sisters.”
“But it works like wyrd, where the beginning is wide open and it narrows in and in so that at the end there's only one place for it to go.”
“A wyrd or fate is not an inalterable future, so much as a part of the present we have not yet experienced.”
“Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide ond þæs strangan staþol.”
“This is our wyrd; our personal Destiny is to reach the stage where we know this, and where we put into practice what we have learn t.”
“Beorht wæron burgræced, burnsele monige, heah horngestreon, heresweg micel, meodoheall monig mondreama full, oþþæt þæt onwende wyrd seo swiþe.”
“OK, if you're going to drag Comus into it great band, BTW, then I'll just same time and suggest Googling the terms "wyrd folk", "psych-folk" and "acid folk".”
“I find the concepts of moira and wyrd really useful as they apply to characters.”
“Just becasue you spell is wyrd … I mean is that their last name … I mean I never heard of these people.”
“Yes, the Norns/Nixes, wierd sisters, wyrd, Shakespeare and whatall are in the public domain.”
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treeseed Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon and Nordic culture roughly corresponding to Fate. It is ancestral to Modern English weird, which has acquired a very different signification. The cognate term in old Norse is Urðr, with a similar meaning, but also personalized as one of the Norns, Urðr (anglicized Urd). The concept corresponding to "fate" in Old Norse is Ørlǫg.
The Well of Urd is the holy well, the Well Spring, the source of water for the world tree Yggdrasil.
_Wikipedia Feb 11, 2008
npydyuan Whoa--that's cool. I used to call Microsoft Word 5.1a "Ms Wyrd." Seems strangely appropriate. Oct 13, 2007
fbharjo wyrd "what will be": fate (from IE root meaning to turn) Jan 25, 2007