Thence come the maidens
mighty in wisdom,
Three from the dwelling
down ‘neath the tree;
Urth is one named,
Verthandi the next, —
On the wood they scored, —
and Skuld the third.
Laws they made there,
and life allotted
To the sons of men,
 and set their fates.

[Þaðan koma meyjar,
margs vitandi,
þrjár, ór þeim sæ
er und þolli stendr;
Urð hétu eina,
aðra Verðandi —
skáru á skíði —
Skuld ina þriðju;
þær lǫg lǫgðu,
þær líf kuru
alda bǫrnum,
ørlǫg seggja.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems

Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress], st. 20 (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936)]
    (Source)

Narrated by Heiðr.

Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld are the Norns (Nornir), their names interpreted as "the Past, the Present, and the Future" (or "That which Has Happened / Fate," "That Which Is Happening," or "That Which Shall Happen." These Fates are analogous to the Roman Parcae and Greek Moirai. See Turner, Bellows, Pettit notes.

(Source (Old Norse)). Other translations:

Then came the much-knowing virgins;
Three, from the sea
Which extend over the oak
One is called Urd (necessity);
Another Vedande (the possible);
The third Skulld.
 
They engrave on the shield;
They appoint laws, they chuse laws
For the sons of the ages;
The fates of mankind.
[tr. Turner (1836); st. 18]

Thence come maidens, much knowing, three from the hall, which under that tree stands; Urd hight the one, the second Verdandi, -- on a tablet they graved -- Skuld the third. Laws they established, life allotted to the sons of men; destinies pronounced.
[tr. Thorpe (1866)]

From there come three girls, knowing a great deal,
from the lake which stands under the tree;
Fated one is called, Becoming another --
they carved on wooden slips -- Must-be the third;
they set down laws, the chose lives,
for the sons of men the fates of men.
[tr. Larrington (2014)]

From there come maidens, knowing many things,
three [maidens], from the sea which stands under the tree;
one was called Urðr, the second Verðandi,
— they inscribed on a stick — the third Skuld;
they laid down laws, they chose lives
for the sons of men, the fates of men.
[tr. Pettit (2023)]