Well of Urd: Encyclopedia - Well of Urd

The Well of Urd (ON: Urðarbrunnr) is from Norse Mythology as the well in Asgard which fed one of the roots of the Yggdrasil. Also near the well in a hall are three Norns (or Nornir) that tend the well - Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, personifications of fate. They engrave the fate of all humans onto the trunk of the Yggdrasil and attend to the needs of the tree. Odin, the Poetry god, dropped his eye into the well to gain the "Gift of Knowledge." Odin completed two other tasks to gain t

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