Wyrd, the source for weird, does not come from Old Norse, but is genuine Old English.
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Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny.
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Oaths said over the symbel-horn were seen as binding and affecting the luck and wyrd of all in attendance.
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Wyrd oft nereth unfaegne eorl, ponne his ellen deah.
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