Rǣdan - what a word! It or it's Proto-Germanic root has given seed to a lot of words in a lot of languages. You mentioned some of the English ones like "read" as one reads a book (perhaps to gain council from what is written?) and also preparedness in the form of "ready." Just this morning I was reading in "Millenium" by Tom Holland, a section about the King Ethelred and Sweyn Forkbeard, when a thought struck me. Ethelred was nicknamed "The Unready" due to his bad policy of paying Dane Geld to the invading Norse and Danish armies, but this makes his name Æðelræd Unræd - "Noble-Council the ill-councilled." Funny how history plays out like that. Although now he is called "Ethelred Unready", I think it initially meant poorly advised although being poorly advised does indeed make one unready. In Dutch we still use the word "raad" for council or advice, and I seem to recall that "town hall", the place where traditionally councils were held and advised was asked and given by members of the surrounding area, in the Scandinavian languages are still called "rådhus" - "council-house." Thanks for making this interesting video Cefin, food for thought indeed on a Friday morning :)
In Scots the phrase " Ye maun dree yeir ane weird " = " you must suffer your own destiny ". They also have the word "byde" or "byth" that means to be, to remain, as in " whaur ye byde ? " = " where you be? where you live?
Bosworth Toller gives one meaning of ārǣd as 'resolute' & then quotes 'wyrd biþ ful ārǣd'. So this would mean 'fate is very resolute'. This tallies with Bernard Cornwell's rendition of it as 'fate is inexorable' which he uses in his 'Last Kingdom' series of novels.
It means accept your fate, you can not shake it, persuade it or evade it. This statement lends fate anthropomorphism. Usually said with a sigh or yell I would say!
I am so badly want to learn that but ı can not find it anywhere.Can anyone tell me this is how pronouncing " Gaed a wyrd swa hio scel" please contact me
