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Originally Posted by Odin
On another note the term "tempting fate" is a very ancient term that is very ingrained into European society. In elder times it was "tempting the fates". This is because once upon a time it was a common belief across almost all of the early European beliefs that fate was controlled by a trio of sister goddesses. Tempting the fates, was an act so bold as to temp the goddesses to change the fate they had laid out before you. In general this was rarely a good thing.
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Ahh, of course: Urd, Skuld, and Verdandi
Thanks for clarifying that. I hadn't had time to research it, and I generally don't like to make proclamations without fact-checking myself first. (I usually bear in mind that I may be full of it.)
You know, if you hadn't registered before I did, I would have been "Odin." I'm glad it worked out this way -- you make a better Allfather than I would have.