Las nornas viven bajo las raíces del fresno Yggdrasil, el árbol del mundo en el centro del cosmos, donde tejen los tapices de los destinos y riegan el fresno con las aguas y la arcilla provenientes del pozo de Urd para que éste no pierda su verdor ni se pudra. La vida de cada persona es un hilo en su telar, y la longitud de cada cuerda es la duración de la vida de dicha persona.
Beside these three famous Norns, there are many others who appear at a person's birth in order to determine his or her future. In the pre-Christian Norse societies, Norns were thought to have visited newborn children. There were both malevolent and benevolent Norns: the former caused all the malevolent and tragic events in the world while the latter were kind and protective goddesses.
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