Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning...
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Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988. It re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites. Wyrd Sisters features three...
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Hellboy Web of Wyrd is a beat 'em up roguelike game developed by Upstream Arcade and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. The game was released for...
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also refer to: Wyrd (band), a Finnish black metal band Wyrd (company), a miniatures company Wyrd (album), an album by the band Elvenking WYRD (AM), a radio...
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Gaahls Wyrd is a black metal band based in Bergen, Norway, formed by the former Gorgoroth and God Seed vocalist Gaahl. In September 2015 (one month after...
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Wyrd Miniatures produces a range of 32 mm metal and plastic miniatures, in several genres, for painters and gamers. Established and offering its first...
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Wyrd is a Finnish Pagan black metal band which was formed in 1998. The band was originally formed under the name Hellkult in 1997 by Narqath and drummer...
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WYRD-FM (98.9 MHz, "98.9 WORD") is a news/talk station licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, and covering the Upstate region, including Greenville as...
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Wyrd Sisters is a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films, and first broadcast...
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Urðarbrunnr (redirect from Well of Wyrd)
Urðarbrunnr (Old Norse "Wellspring of Urðr"; either referring to a Germanic concept of fate—urðr—or the norn named Urðr) is a spring or well in Norse mythology...
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The Wyrd Sisters are a Canadian folk music group formed in 1990 in Winnipeg by founding members Kim Baryluk, Nancy Reinhold and Kim Segal. The band chose...
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WYRD (1330 kHz), branded as "The Fan Upstate", is a sports-formatted commercial AM radio station, licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to...
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Brian Bates (psychologist) (redirect from The Way of Wyrd)
London. The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (London: Century, 1983, ISBN 978-0-7126-0277-8) The Wisdom of the Wyrd: Teachings for Today...
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The Wyrd Con Interactive Theater Convention is a live action role-playing (LARP) convention. The conventions began with Wyrd One in 2010. Wyrd Con is the...
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Elvenking (band) (redirect from Wyrd (album))
joined soon after. The shift in the line-up led to their second album, Wyrd, recorded at Gernhart studios in Siegburg with Martin Buchwalter, and mixed...
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Capes & Cowls (redirect from Capes & Cowls: Adventures in Wyrd City)
Wyrd City (usually referred to as Capes & Cowls or merely C&C) is an expandable "book-in-a-box" superhero board game based on Capes & Cowls: The Wyrd...
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leaving Gorgoroth, he has been involved with God Seed, Wardruna, and Gaahls Wyrd. He was the focus of the documentary True Norwegian Black Metal and also...
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Weird Canada (section Wyrd Distro)
on the Polaris Music Prize panel. In 2012, LeBlanc-Flanagan incorporated Wyrd Arts Initiatives, a national nonprofit with a mandate to "encourage, document...
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matches the Old English view of luck and personal courage, as Beowulf's "wyrd often spares the man who isn't doomed, as long as his courage holds." The...
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Verðandi makes up a trio of Norns that are described as deciding the fates (wyrd) of people. Verðandi is literally the present participle of the Old Norse...
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Chris. "Wykked Wytch". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 August 2009. True, Chris. "Wyrd". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 August 2009. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Xasthur". Allmusic...
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games – Dogs of the Night (2000), The Science of Evil (2004) and Web of Wyrd (2023). A well-meaning Cambion (or half-Demon) whose true name is Anung Un...
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course of human destinies. In the Völuspá, the three primary Norns Urðr (Wyrd), Verðandi, and Skuld draw water from their sacred well to nourish the tree...
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Bros. offered CAD$5,000 (later CAD$50,000) to the Canadian folk band the Wyrd Sisters for the rights to use their name in the film version of Harry Potter...
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boarding house. In the Wyrd Sisters animated adaptation, Nanny Ogg was voiced by June Whitfield. In the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Wyrd Sisters, she was played...
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Steve Tucker of Morbid Angel. Eriksen has also been a live member of Gaahls Wyrd and made guest appearances on recordings by Absu, Negură Bunget and Root...
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Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have." In Wyrd Sisters, the ghost of the King of Lancre addresses her as "Doyenne of Witches"...
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Malifaux is a skirmish-level miniatures wargame created by Wyrd Miniatures in 2009 that simulates gang warfare in the ruins of the eponymous city of Malifaux...
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involves the witches of Lancre. The three main witches introduced in 1988's Wyrd Sisters—crone Esme Weatherwax, mother Nanny Ogg and maiden Magrat Garlick—are...
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matches the Old English view of luck and personal courage, as in Beowulf's "Wyrd often spares the man who isn't doomed, as long as his courage holds." The...
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