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teitir váru, |
var þeim vettergis |
vant ór gulli, |
uns þrjár kvámu |
þursa meyjar |
ámáttkar mjök |
ór Jötunheimum.[17] |
8. In their dwellings at peace |
they played at tables, |
Of gold no lack |
did the gods then know,-- |
Till thither came |
up giant-maids three, |
Huge of might, |
out of Jotunheim.[16] |
Vafþrúðnismál probably refers to the norns when it talks of maiden giantesses who arrive to protect the people of earth as protective spirits (hamingjas):[2][18] |
49. "Þríar þjóðár |
falla þorp yfir |
meyja Mögþrasis; |
hamingjur einar |
þær er í heimi eru, |
þó þær með jötnum alask."[19] |
49. O’er people’s dwellings |
three descend |
of Mögthrasir’s maidens, |
the sole Hamingiur |
who are in the world, |
although with Jötuns nurtured.[20] |
The Völuspá contains the names of the three main Norns referring to them as maidens like Vafþrúðnismál probably does: |
20. Þaðan koma meyjar |
margs vitandi |
þrjár ór þeim sæ, |
er und þolli stendr; |
Urð hétu eina, |
aðra Verðandi, |
- skáru á skíði, - |
Skuld ina þriðju; |
þær lög lögðu, |
þær líf kuru |
alda börnum, |
örlög seggja.[17] |
20. Thence come the maidens |
mighty in wisdom, |
Three from the dwelling |
down 'neath the tree; |
Urth is one named, |
Verthandi the next,-- |
On the wood they scored,-- |
and Skuld the third. |
Laws they made there, |
and life allotted |
To the sons of men, |
and set their fates.[16] |
Helgakviða Hundingsbana I[edit] |
The Norns |
Arthur Rackham. |
The Norns Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld under the world oak Yggdrasil (1882) by Ludwig Burger. |
2. Nótt varð í bæ, |
nornir kómu, |
þær er öðlingi |
aldr of skópu; |
þann báðu fylki |
frægstan verða |
ok buðlunga |
beztan þykkja. |
3. Sneru þær af afli |
þá er borgir braut |
í Bráluni; |
þær of greiddu |
gullin símu |
ok und mánasal |
miðjan festu. |
4. Þær austr ok vestr |
enda fálu, |
þar átti lofðungr |
land á milli; |
brá nift Nera |
á norðrvega |
einni festi, |
ey bað hon halda.[21] |
2. 'Twas night in the dwelling, |
and Norns there came, |
Who shaped the life |
of the lofty one; |
They bade him most famed |
of fighters all |
And best of princes |
ever to be. |
3. Mightily wove they |
the web of fate, |
While Bralund's towns |
were trembling all; |
And there the golden |
threads they wove, |
And in the moon's hall |
fast they made them. |
4. East and west |
the ends they hid, |
In the middle the hero |
should have his land; |
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