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The Norns are female figures from Norse culture that decide the fates of all beings, including the gods. Most Norns appearing in tales are nameless, but in the ''Völuspá'' and Snorre Sturlasson’s ''Prose Edda'' there are three named ones; They are Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld ([[wikipedia:Old Norse|Old Norse]]: ''Urðr, Verðandi'', and ''Skuld''), who live together by Urd's Well next to one of [[Yggdrasil]]’s roots. There they carve the fates of humans in wood and care for the tree by drawing water and white mud from the well to pour on the root and prevent the ash from rotting. | |||
Norns are heavily associated with death, but also with childbirth. Their role during a birth was to appear and give the newborn their fate, and potentially take the mothers life. If everything went well during childbirth an offering of porridge would be given to the Norns in thanks.<ref>{{Cite Book|quote=Det handlade om kritiska dagar för mor och barn och gick allt väl belönades nornorna med ett tackoffer, som fortlevde länge i folktron under namnet ''nornegreytur''.|translquote=It was critical days for mother and child and if everything went well the Norns were rewarded with an offering of thanks, which survived long in folk belief under the name ''norn-porridge''.|chapter=11. Själ och öde|book=Fornskandinavisk religion: en grundbok|author=Britt-Mari Näsström|publisher=Studentlitteratur|lang=Swedish|edition=2|page=p. 323|isbn=9789144015767}}</ref> | |||
Once a Norn has decreed a death, it is unavoidable, and tragedies are often blamed on evil Norns in stories. | |||
In ''Fáfnismál'', the dying [[Fafnir]] explains that there are three kinds of Norns: those descended from Aesir, those from Elves, and those from Dwarves. | |||
The word Norn may also have been applied to Völvor (female shamans) in general.<ref>{{Cite Book|quote=Ordet norna förekommer också om trollkunniga kvinnor i allmänhet. I Norna-Gests þáttr kallas völvor omväxlande nornor och spåkvinnor.|translquote=The word norn also occurs for women skilled in magic in general. In the Norna-Gests þáttr völvas are alternately called norns and seeresses.|chapter=N|book=Nordisk mytologi: från A till Ö|author=Katarina Harrison Lindbergh|publisher=Historiska media|lang=Swedish|edition=E-Book|page=p. 145|isbn= 978-91-7545-370-5 }}</ref> | |||
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