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How to pronounce wyrd in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms weird
Type of anglo-saxon deity

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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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  • Fate, destiny, particular in an Anglo-Saxon or Norse context
  • That which we [(individuals, clans, families, communities) humans and otherwise] are born into/with; the choices/actions of all who came before us, our choices/actions in past lives, our genetic heritage, the gifts from the Mysterious Ones
  • An Anglo-Saxon term having to do with a way of life governed by the beliefs that: (1) all things and all events are intimately interconnected, as if by a seamless web, on all levels of reality; (2) objects that are perceptible to human senses are nothing more than local manifestations of larger ...