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)]