Verðandi (possibly "happening" or "present"), sometimes anglicized as Verdandi, is a Norn in Norse mythology. Along with Urðr (Old Norse "fate") and Skuld (possibly "debt" or "future"), Verðandi makes up a trio of Norns that are described as deciding the fates of people.
Verðandi is literally the present tense of the Old Norse verb "verða", "to become", and is commonly translated as "in the making" or "that which is happening/becoming"; it is rel...
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