| fylgja | Accompanying spirit, understood to watch over a family or individual and/or come fetch them when it is their time. If you see your fylgja, this foreshadows your imminent death. |
| Interventionism | The belief that a divine principle actively influences individual events, whether that intervention is to be understood as taking place in time, ahead of time, or outside of time |
| Norns | In Old Norse mythology, three female deities governing the fates of humans |
| Teleology | The belief that history moves towards a goal (Greek telos) |