Use Wooden Slips

19 An ash I know that stands, Yggdrasill it’s called,
a tall tree, drenched with shining loam;
from there come the dews which fall in the valley,
green, it stands always over Urd’s well.

20 From there come girls, knowing a great deal,
three from the lake standing under the tree;
Urd one is called, Verdandi another—
they carved on a wooden slip—Skuld the third;

21 they laid down laws, they chose lives
for the sons of men, the fates of men.


- Poetic Edda, Voluspa