Thanks for the feedback. You are about the first person to reply to this.
I've found there are quite a few expositions of Nornic philosophies on the
net. I believe I sould build a page simply dedicated to Norn-links.

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 20:56, Lazarus Freyjasgodhi wrote:
> The name-word "Urð" is related (maybe even a cognate of) "Ur" which means
> 'before/origin of' and is often us as a prefix in the same instances where
> one may use the Greek prefix 'Proto'.

Ör-lög. Ur-ox, etc. However, see my page linked below.
[snip, thanks for the observations]

Can you provide a source on this. It is not consistent with the Zoëga who
gives 'urðr' as 'weird'.
http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/h453.html

And Meriam Webster gives:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

> "Verdandi" is more literal and means 'happening right now'. It's more
> immediate than the word 'Present' has in our 'present' English speaking
> society. (interestingly, the word Verða means "happening/occuring" while
> Verð means "worth/price/value" - this is interesting because of the
> following...)
>
> Zoega and Gordon translate "Skuld" to mean 'Debt'. Precisely how the Norn
> 'Skuld' represents 'Debt' I can only conjecture. Probably related to how
> the future is an emptiness that requires filling. Hey - that sounds pretty
> good.

Here, take a look at the results of several nights of my armchair
linguistics:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~hattons/asatru/my-edda/orlags-thread.html

If you find something wrong with this, pleas go easy on me, I've put a lot of
work into it, and it isn't easy.

> -Laz

Steven