Note 746 — Chapter XII · HEATHENDOM.

This is a most remarkable passage, for Wyrd is distinctly called Metod, a word generally appropriated to God; but I am disposed to think that Metten, another word for Fate, was uppermost in the poet’s mind,—perhaps found in some heathen copy of the poem. “Ða gráman mettena,” saevae parcae. Boet. p. 161. (Rawl.)