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Definition of 'wyrd'English
Noun
( en-noun)
Fate, destiny, particular in an Anglo-Saxon or Norse context.
* 1983 , Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer , Century:
- Wyrd' is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of ' wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.
* 1992 , Fred Alan Wolf, The eagle's quest: a physicist's search for truth in the heart of the shamanic world , Simon and Schuster, page 51:
- I had journeyed back to England as part of my research on this book to meet with two Englishmen who were practicing Anglo-Saxon shamans who had been researching and practicing the sounds and ways of wyrd .
* 2009 , Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Bones of the Dragon: Volume 1 , Macmillan, page 78:
- His three sisters sat, beneath the tree, one twisting the wyrd' on her distaff, one spinning the '''wyrd''' on her wheel, one weaving the ' wyrds of gods and men on her loom.
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