Fate, Time and the Norns

How much of what happens is already set, and how much is ours to shape? This trail follows the Norse figures of fate and the tools this site uses to talk about timing. It has eight entries: three places from the Yggdrasil map, one tarot card, two runes and two passages from the Hávamál.

The sources do not give a single picture of fate, and the entries here are cautious about that. The Yggdrasil entries state what the Eddas say and where translations differ. The rune and card entries are this site’s own readings. Hávamál stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system.