Wyrd

Bare Bones and Way of the Wyrd. Photo by Karl Tiisler

Wyrd Sisters is based on the popular Discworld novel by the hugely-successful and hugelymissed comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett, and tells of the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick.

Bear with me for this: 'Gaeo a wyrd swa hio scel!' Excuse the rustiness of my Anglo Saxon accent but it's a quote from the epic poem Beowulf: 'Fate goes ever as it must.' And Fate, together with huge help from local councils, film funds and a wealth of local talent, has led us to produce and reimagine Beowulf as a hugely ambitious 13-part drama series, based in a quarry in Weardale.

Ness Botanic Gardens, Neston Road, 0845 0304063, - Sun, Jul 12, Free entry Shine Merseyside Dance and Drama Centre Floral Pavilion Theatre, Marine Promenade, 0151 666 0000, - Sun, Jul 12, PS11 Wyrd Sisters The Greasby Players present Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett, adapted for stage by Stephen Briggs.

WYRD won a contest in MTV Asia and had some hits, such as "Gone," "Don't You Ever Go Away" and "Scream," which highlighted the unique voice of the lead singer.

Both fortuna and fa turn, for example, are translated by wyrd, an early form of our word weird.

There are also moments of quiet wonder here, with the scarily beautiful Wyrd a real highlight.

After recounting his successful exploits at sea and his slaying of nine sea monsters, Beowulf remarks, Wyrd oft nered // unfaegene eorl, /ponne his ellen deah "Fate often spares / an undoomed man when his courage avails" (572b-573).

The event is hosted by Wyrd Con 5 and sponsored in part by Digital LA.

The Wyrd Britannia Festival will see live music, author talks and free film screenings explore the dark underbelly of British folk traditions.

From this perspective, in Ahab there is room only for NAM, identified as his own will, equal thus to the very celestial intelligence goverming NAM--hence the troubling question: "Who's above me?" Indeed, in most mythological systems, the deities of destiny like the Moiras, the Norns, the Wyrd Sisters, the Rita, the Tao, were higher even than the "gods," being feared and worshipped by the latter.

baby god so in her wyrd jungle she is shaping a baby from Barbarium.

The Luke Players Amateur Drama Group will be performing Wyrd Sisters, adapted by Stephen Briggs, at Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park.

This mantra had its origin with the character Froggy (known for the strange, guttural, frog-like sound of his voice) who said, at the end of one episode of the old television series Our Gang, "It's a long worm that never turns." Froggy, in turn, must have read the 1845 poem by Robert Browning, Flight of the Duchess, in which Browning wrote, "It's a long lane that knows no turning." (9) Browning read his Shakespeare: "The smallest worm will turn being trodden on." (10) I always thought of the "worm" in the Froggy phrase as fate, or "wyrd," symbolized by the "wyrm" or dragon fought by King Beowulf at the end of his life.