And now it's done to a turn, and the weird sisters have done what they could for the family.'
From Urd comes our word "weird," and the weird sisters of Shakespeare.
On his arrival at his castle, Macbeth finds his wife reading a letter from her amiable spouse, about the weird sisters.
The sudden appearance of him who answered the incantations of the weird sisters could not produce a greater panic.
The young people voted the party a "grand success," and the two weird sisters the most bewitching of all the witches.
However, their designation as weird sisters fully settles the case of their Germanic origin.
That should be a hardy sheriff, with the power of the county at his heels, that would lay hands upon the weird sisters.
They then turned into air, and vanished: by which the generals knew them to be the weird sisters, or witches.
Altogether, German folk-lore is still full of rimes about three weird sisters.
Macbeth had a wife, to whom he communicated the strange prediction of the weird sisters, and its partial accomplishment.