Note to Eil Frag 1III
[2] Urðar ‘of Urðr <norn>’: Urðr is one of the three women (Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld) named in Vsp 20 who mete out the fate of humans and, above all, decides their time of death. In Gylf (SnE 2005, 18) these women are called nornir and are said to live in a hall under the world-tree Yggdrasill at the well of Urðr. Brunnr Urðar is the well of the norn named Urðr as well as ‘the well of fate’ (see Weber 1969, 149-54; for further information cf. Note to KormǪ Sigdr 4/4). According to Weber (1969, 152-3), the noun urðar ‘of fate’ originally appeared in connection with brunnr ‘well’ and was later personified as the norn Urðr.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Weber, Gerd Wolfgang. 1969. Wyrd: Studien zum Schicksalsbegriff der altenglischen und altnordischen Literatur. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Germanistik 8. Bad Homburg v.d.H.: Gehlen.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 10 May 2024)
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Sigurðardrápa 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 279.