"Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant, and so wyrd is the happening."
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Brian Bates, in The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)
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