wyrd
The word Wyrd, comes from the Anglo-Saxon verb weorpan which means to become / to be made / to come to be. This word itself comes from an Indo-European root verb meaning to turn. These various names and meanings combine to give Wyrd a basic meaning of Fate.
Me thaet wyrd gewaef
fate wove me that destiny....
Anglo-Saxon saying
In Nordic cultures the word was know as Urd - personified as the name of one of the Three Norns, The spinners of destiny.
The Norns are the guardians of the Well of Wyrd, which lies under the roots of Yggdrasil, The World Tree...Every deed you do or decision you make, flows into the well where it duly sinks. As new deeds and decisions enter, previous ones are churned up in the waters. This action represents the past.
Every day the Norns take the water from the well, (and in so doing collect random deeds of the past), and pour this water onto Yggdrasil. This action represents the present, the here and now.
Once the tree has absorbed these deeds they will flow into the fabric of life and accordingly affect the future
These deeds are then "recycled" as every morning dew from the well water collects on the leaves of Yggdrasil and drops back into the well.
This is one story to explain the effect of Wyrd on our lives, others tell of the Norns as spinners, spinning the fabric that makes our lives. Wyrd can be thought of as a woven cloth or web. The past, present and future are all connected along a woven thread, which is why the choices and deeds you have made in the past are affecting your present, and in turn these choices and deeds will go on to affect your future.
When something happens in our lives that is strange and inexplicable, how often do we say it was weird/wyrd? ...In doing so we are accepting that there is a greater force in action which is too deep, too spiritual for us to even begin to understand.