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Urðr (Old Norse: fate [1]) is one of the Norns in Norse mythology. [1] 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 ...
Bangun Bangun (Suludnon mythology): the deity of universal time who regulates cosmic movements [2]; Patag'aes (Suludnon mythology): awaits until midnight then enters the house to have a conversation with the living infant; if he discovers someone is eavesdropping, he will choke the child to death; their conversation creates the fate of the child, on how long the child wants to live and how the ...
Elements of the cosmos are personified, such as the Sun (Sól, a goddess), the Moon (Máni, a god), and Earth (Jörð, a goddess), as well as units of time, such as day (Dagr, a god) and night (Nótt, a jötunn). [28] The afterlife is a complex matter in Norse mythology.
Norse mythology, Sjódreygil and the Norns Faroese stamps 2006. The Norns feature in fiction books such as Oh My Goddess!, The Wicked + The Divine, the Magic Tree House series, and Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories, in which the protagonist Uhtred refers to them as the "Three Spinners" who control his fate.
The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night , or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions.
In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen , rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers .
In Norse mythology, Verðandi (Old Norse, meaning possibly "happening" or "present" [1]), sometimes anglicized as Verdandi or Verthandi, is one of the norns. Along with Urðr (Old Norse "fate" [2]) and Skuld (possibly "debt" or "future" [3]), Verðandi makes up a trio of Norns that are described as deciding the fates of people.
Gná is flanked by the horse Hófvarpnir, while standing before the enthroned Frigg in an illustration (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, Gná (Old Norse: ) is a goddess who runs errands in other worlds for the goddess Frigg and rides the flying, sea-treading horse Hófvarpnir (O.N.: [ˈhoːvˌwɑrpnez̠], "he who throws his hoofs about", [1] "hoof-thrower" [2] or "hoof kicker" [3]).