[ **up: [[Fate]] | [[Fortune]]** ] --- # Wyrd Your wyrd was your fate or destiny.[^1] --- ## Birth customs Max Dashu writes that there were birth customs where expectant mothers would put out offering to win better (or, at least, *not worse*) wyrd for their child.[^2] --- ## In the Christian era Wyrd persisted long after [[pagan|paganism]] was officially abolished. The English [[Cotton Maxims]] of 900 CE accommodated [[Christianity]] but still attested to the primacy of the [[fate goddess]]. > THE GLORIES OF CHRIST ARE GREAT > WYRD IS STRONGEST OF ALL.[^3] [^1]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), Chapter 1. [^2]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), Chapter 1. [^3]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 20.