Pronunciation question

[Lee]

How is the word "Wyrd" pronounced?

I know the word has evolved into the modern word "weird" but I don't know if "Wyrd" is pronounced in the same way as it's modern form.

[Norsk Blod]

i say it like wierd but with a V "vierd"

[Loki's Advocate]

I say 'weird' like 'weerd', and 'wyrd' like 'wee-erd', but honestly, I dunno how it's meant to be pronounced.

The word 'weird' is derived from 'wyrd' (look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary at the library), so I have no problem with my pronounciation of the two being so similar.

[Hengest]

I have always heard it pronounces like Weird.

[Scramaseax]

Yep I vote for "weird", and I've heard an Anglo-Saxon Heathen pronounce it as such in a song

[Hveðrungur Kveldúlfsson]

I've always pronounced it "Weird".

[Scramaseax]

Some scholars, in particular G.W Weber, have called into question wether Wyrd is a Heathen or Medieval Christian concept.

[Sigurd]

I would say it as follows: Vyrd, where as the y is like the y in (sw./nor.) Polarlys.

[pinlighter]

Aparently it's also a homonym of the name of the third Norn, "Urd".

This may give another clue to pronounciaton

[Sigurd]

It would then be: "Vörrd"? :confused:

[Hengest]

A couple of Wyrd articles:

Part 1: The suppression of Wyrd (http://www.********rite.org/wyrd1.html)

Part 2: In the Beginning was the Wyrd (http://www.********rite.org/wyrd2.html)

[Lee]

"Aparently it's also a homonym of the name of the third Norn, "Urd"."

According to Brian Branston, the Icelanders called the Old English Wyrd "urdr", taking the W off the front which apperently is quite a common practice in Norse lanuages. The old Saxon name is Wurd and the old High German is Wurt.

I'm reading Brian Bates' "The Real Middle-Earth" at the moment and he mentions that the Anglo-Saxons used to call one sort of dragon a "wyrm". Obviously this has evolved into the modern "worm".

So I'm wondering whether Wyrd is actually pronounced like "word" as opposed to "weird"?

[Sigurd]

Hmmm...I was drifting towards neither, but adopting a more Scandinavian style one...but it is well possible. But I think it is just another matter of opinion one, you can Wyrd whatever you like, Weird or Word, Or Vyrd. Whatever you think is the most correct one, I would say, I don't think that there is a settled version, or is there?!

[Hveðrungur Kveldúlfsson]

"Aparently it's also a homonym of the name of the third Norn, "Urd"."

According to Brian Branston, the Icelanders called the Old English Wyrd "urdr", taking the W off the front which apperently is quite a common practice in Norse lanuages. The old Saxon name is Wurd and the old High German is Wurt.

I'm reading Brian Bates' "The Real Middle-Earth" at the moment and he mentions that the Anglo-Saxons used to call one sort of dragon a "wyrm". Obviously this has evolved into the modern "worm".

So I'm wondering whether Wyrd is actually pronounced like "word" as opposed to "weird"?
Ive always heard Stephen McNallen & Edred Wodanson refer to it as "Weird" on Odin Lives Radio.

[Sigurd]

Aaaah, but maybe they're wrong! :D

[Norsk Blod]

I like Odin lives because you can hear the words since I learned about asatru I said it with the accent on the second A like ah-saw-true not asa-true :p

[Hveðrungur Kveldúlfsson]

Aaaah, but maybe they're wrong! :D

I tend to think people like Stephen McNallen and Edred Wodanson have done their homework on such things ;)

[Sigurd]

I know, I was kidding... :D