When the Norns Have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism »

British scholar of German metaphysics and epistemology Winterbourne has recently turned his attention to comparative mythology. Here he inquires into just what fate meant to those people who employed over the centuries a range of cognate terms in the Germanic (including Scandinavian) languages for it: urdr, wurt, wurd, wyrd, and others. His topics include mythical space and time, cosmogony and the world- tee, spinning and weaving fate, and from pagan fate to Christian providence. The quotations are in English. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR