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- From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
- Subject: Re: Help with Fates
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- References: <1992Jul23.210101.8375@midway.uchicago.edu> <l6v3csINN4bg@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:06:35 GMT
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- In <l6v3csINN4bg@news.bbn.com> ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul23.210101.8375@midway.uchicago.edu> rivk@quads.uchicago.edu (nora gayle rivkis) writes:
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- > Can someone please tell me what the names of the three Fates
- > were, and which one did which job? Thanks very much.
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- >Clotho - spins the thread of a person's life
- >Lachesis - measures it out
- >Atropos - wields the shears and cuts the thread
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- There are also the fates in Scandinavian mythology who are called
- the Nornir, also three spinners.
- There are traces existing of three similar fates in Anglo-Saxon mythology
- which unfortunately were mostly erased with the Christianisation of Britain.
- Their names became synonyms for God. Wyrd was one such, which means fate or
- destiny, the other was Metod, the measurer and the third was Scyppende, the
- shaper.
- I can't remember the exact names of the Nornir at the moment but I'll
- check them out for you.
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