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Students organized in the liberal-radical society Verdandi, which advocated suffrage and social reforms (1882).
1882 2001
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The three Norns guarded this little drop of paradise: Urda (the Past), Verdandi (the Present) and Skuld (the Future).
HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000
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The three Norns guarded this little drop of paradise: Urda (the Past), Verdandi (the Present) and Skuld (the Future).
HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000
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The three Norns guarded this little drop of paradise: Urda (the Past), Verdandi (the Present) and Skuld (the Future).
HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000
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Freyja, the goddess of love and plenty, who presided over marriages, was one of these, and the three moons, Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, who determined the fate of gods and men, were also among the number.
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Urda, Verdandi, and Skulda; they knew the whole of the Past, the whole of the Present, and the whole of the Future.
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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Urda was ancient and with white hair, and Verdandi was beautiful, while Skulda could hardly be seen, for she sat far back, and her hair fell over her face and eyes.
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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The three Norns, Urda, Verdandi, and Skulda, sat beside the well that was in the hollow of the great root of Ygdrassil.
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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These three sisters, whose names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, were personifications of the past, present, and future.
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Two of the Norns, Urd and Verdandi, were considered to be very beneficent indeed, while the third, it is said, relentlessly undid their work, and often, when nearly finished, tore it angrily to shreds, scattering the remnants to the winds of heaven.
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