<P> In Norse mythology the Norns are female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men, twining the thread of life . They set up the laws and decided on the lives of the children of men . Their names were Urðr, related with Wyrd, weird (fate), Verðandi, and Skuld, and it has often been inferred that they ruled over the past, present and future respectively, based on the sequence and partly the etymology of the names, of which the first two (literally' Fate' and' Becoming') are derived from the past and present stems of the verb verða, "to be", respectively, and the name of the third one means' Debt' or' Guilt', originally' That which must happen' . </P> <P> In younger legendary sagas, the Norns appear to have been synonymous with witches (Völvas), and they arrive at the birth of the hero to shape his destiny . It seems that originally all of them were Disir, ghosts or deities associated with destruction and destiny . The notion that they were three may be due to a late influence from Greek and Roman mythology . The same applies to their (disputed) association with the past, present and future . </P> <P> The Valkyries (choosers of the slain), were originally daemons of death . They were female figures who decided who will die in battle, and brought their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain . They were also related with spinning, and one of them was named Skuld (debt, guilt). They may be related to Keres, the daemons of death in Greek mythology, who accompanied the dead to the entrance of Hades . In the scene of Kerostasie Keres are the "lots of death", and in some cases Ker (destruction) has the same meaning, with Moira interpreted as "destiny of death" (moira thanatoio: μοίρα θανάτοιο). </P> <P> The Celtic Matres and Matrones, female deities almost entirely in a group of three, have been proposed as connected to the Norns and the Valkyries . </P>

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