Motif
fate and ill fortune personified
fate_and_ill_fortune_personified
A motif of the Fate Figures and Cosmic Weaving family, within the sub-family Personified Fate, Ill Fortune, and Unseen Compulsion. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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The Poetic Edda HAMTHESMOL / THE BALLAD OF HAMTHER / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 21027-21077 confidence: medium
"Norns: the fates; the word used in the original means the goddesses of ill fortune."
The Norns are identified as fates and as goddesses of ill fortune, with wolves glossed as their hounds.
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