wyrd

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrd. Doublet of weird.

noun

1. Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.
   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. 1983, Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer, Century
   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. 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
   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. 2009, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Bones of the Dragon: Volume 1, Macmillan, page 78