Skuld
Skuld (Old Norse skuld "guilt", maybe also "future") is one of the three Norns in Norse mythology , alongside Urd and Verdandi . Like the name of her sister Verdandi, her name in all likelihood does not come from ancient tradition, but is a medieval creation by Nordic poets based on common medieval past-present-future concepts of the three moirs or Parzen . The mythical figure behind the name, however, as part of a nameless trinity of women, can be older.
Only the name Skulds expresses that it stands for the future. Apparently, this means what is owed to the past within the Nordic notions of fate. That is the happening that still has to happen because it cannot happen otherwise due to the past.
Skuld is also the name of a Nordic Valkyrie who may have given the Norn its name.
literature
- François-Xavier Dillmann : Norns. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 21, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-017272-0 , pp. 388-394.
- Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Wolfgang Weber: Wyrd - studies on the concept of fate of the old English and old Norse nature. Verlag Gehlen, Bad Homburg - Berlin - Zurich 1969, p. 150