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At the Well of Urd

An account of the Norns, the three women who set the fates of gods and mortals alike at the foot of the world tree, and of how uncertain their thread-work really is in the old sources.

The Grammar of Birds

On the old Roman and Etruscan art of augury, in which the flight of birds, the fall of lightning, and the appetite of sacred chickens were read as the language of fate.
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