and speculation surrounds the well. Urðarbrunnr is attested in the following works: In the Poetic Edda, Urðarbrunnr is mentioned in stanzas 19 and 20 of... 8 KB (1,025 words) - 20:51, 27 June 2023 |
root is the "very holy" well Urðarbrunnr. At Urðarbrunnr the gods hold their court, and every day the Æsir ride to Urðarbrunnr up over the bridge Bifröst... 26 KB (3,383 words) - 22:18, 13 April 2024 |
other two being Hvergelmir, located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Urðarbrunnr. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva recounts to Odin that she knows... 7 KB (645 words) - 12:01, 25 July 2023 |
Gylfaginning. Urðr is together with the other Norns located at the well Urðarbrunnr beneath the world ash tree Yggdrasil of Asgard. They spin threads of... 4 KB (316 words) - 09:38, 8 April 2024 |
at the primary roots of the cosmic tree Yggdrasil (the other two are Urðarbrunnr and Mímisbrunnr), and that within the spring are a vast amount of snakes... 4 KB (527 words) - 10:21, 6 June 2023 |
The genitive was used partitively and in compounds and kennings (e.g., Urðarbrunnr, the well of Urðr; Lokasenna, the gibing of Loki). There were several... 112 KB (8,802 words) - 17:08, 2 April 2024 |
The word also appears in the name of the well where the Norns meet, Urðarbrunnr. The Old English term wyrd derives from a Proto-Germanic term *wurđíz... 11 KB (1,198 words) - 23:43, 17 January 2024 |
three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well... 15 KB (1,821 words) - 14:43, 16 April 2024 |