The Web of Wyrd

Tonight, December 20th, is the Mother's Night dedicated to the Wyrd Sisters or Norns who came to the Divine Child, Helgi, at this hour to wind the web of his Wyrd, the destiny of the great Folk-Hero. The English called the Wyrd Sisters by the name Waelcyrge which is the same as the Viking Valkyries -

Blood rains,

From the cloudy web

On the broad loom

of slaughter.

The web of man,

Grey as armour,

Is now being woven:

The Valkyries

Will cross it

With a crimson weft.

The warp is made

Of human entrails:

Human heads

Are used as weights:

The heddle-rods

Are blood-wet spears:

The shafts are iron-bound.

The arrows are the shuttles.

With swords we will weave

 This web of battle.

The Valkyries go weaving

With drawn swords...

Spears will shatter,

Shields will splinter

Swords will gnaw

Like wolves through armour.

Let us now wind 

The web of war.....

It is horrible now

To look around,

As the blood-red cloud

Darkens the sky.

The heavens are stained

With the blood of men,

As the Valkyries sing their song.

Njall's Saga

'Might of the AEgishjalm - the Helm of Ygg - ward off all evil forces from the Folk. As the Golden Boar wards off the Darkness of Night and Terror, ward off all ill-will and ill-luck, and send it back to whence it came.'

May the Helm of Ygg - The Terrible One -

protect our Folk and drive away the 

Darkness of Evil.

May the Sun triumph over the Darkness!

Hail to the Sun!

Hail Light!