“Wyrd is too vast and too complex, for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves, part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force. Just as fisherman cannot see the full extent of the seas, so even a sorcerer cannot view the totality of wyrd.”

— Brian Bates

The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)

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