Skuld

From Old Norse Skuld, from Proto-Indo-European *skel- (“to be obligated”). See English should.

• IPA^(key): /skʊld/

Skuld

1. (Norse mythology) the Norn of the future

• Norn

• Urd
• Verdandi

From Old Norse Skuld.

• IPA^(key): /skʊlt/

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Skuld f (proper noun, genitive Skulds or (with an article) Skuld)

1. (Norse mythology) Skuld

• Norne

• Urd
• Werdandi

• IPA^(key): /skʊl(d)/
• Homophone: skuld

From Old Norse Skuld, from skuld, whence also skuld.

Skuld f

1. Skuld, the Norn of the future

• skuld (“debt, blame”)

From Skuld. (see above)

Skuld f

1. A peak of the Misery Mountain, Bear Island, in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway

• norne
• Urd
• Verdande

See skuld. The name literally means “debt”, or “obligation”; thus, what is bound to happen, the future.

Skuld f

1. (Norse mythology) one of the three Norns
   • Vǫluspá, verse 20, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:

     Þaðan koma meyjar / margs vitandi
     þrjár, ór þeim sal / er und þolli stendr;
     Urð hétu eina, / aðra Verðandi,
     skáru á skíði, / Skuld ina þriðju;
     þær lög lögðu, / þær líf kuru
     alda börnum, / örlög seggja.

     Thence come maidens / much knowing
     three from the hall / which under that tree stands;
     Urd hight the one, / the second Verdandi,
     on a tablet they graved, / Skuld the third;
     Laws they established, / life allotted
     to the sons of men, / destinies pronounced.

• Urðr
• Verðandi

• skulu

• Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend.