Wyrd

/wɪəd/

Synonyms for "wyrd" (17 found)

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Related words (8)

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Anglo-Saxon deitylinguistic heritagemetaphysical concept

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Collocations

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Norse wyrdOld English wyrdfate and wyrdfate conceptwyrd as doom

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Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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Wyrd is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.

Source: wiktionary

I had journeyed back to England as part of my research on this book to meet with two Englishmen who were practicing Anglo-Saxon shamans who had been researching and practicing the sounds and ways of wyrd.

Source: wiktionary

His three sisters sat, beneath the tree, one twisting the wyrd on her distaff, one spinning the wyrd on her wheel, one weaving the wyrds of gods and men on her loom.

Source: wiktionary

Both Wyrd (2574, 2526) and the Mighty Maker (979) measure out dooms, though God is said to control fate (1056).

Source: wiktionary

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