Wood is fascinating on the matter of the crossroads (or, more properly, the trivium, the place where three roads meet) at which Oedipus encounters his fate in the form of his father Laius, whom he slays, thus setting in train the frightful events which, did he but know, had been foretold to him by the oracle.
She told him their meeting had been foretold to her by extraterrestrials, persuading him that he had a divine assignment.
Philostratus writes that he was poisoned by Domitian with a sea hare (Aplysia depilans), and that his death had been foretold to him by Apollonius of Tyana.
Víðarr is described as the son of Odin and the jötunn Gríðr, and is foretold to avenge his father's death by killing the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarök, a conflict which he is described as surviving.
Lexicon Poëticum defines this name as "Livæ amator, vitæ amans, vitæ cupidus", "Líf's lover, lover of life, zest for life") —female and male respectively are two humans who are foretold to survive the events of Ragnarök by hiding in a wood called Hoddmímis holt, and after the flames have abated, to repopulate the newly risen and fertile world.
In both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, Fenrir is the father of the wolves Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson, is a son of Loki, and is foretold to kill the god Odin during the events of Ragnarök, but will in turn be killed by Odin's son Víðarr.
In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda she is described as the sister of the personified moon, Máni, is the daughter of Mundilfari, is at times referred to as Álfröðull, and is foretold to be killed by a monstrous wolf during the events of Ragnarök, though beforehand she will have given birth to a daughter who continues her mother's course through the heavens.
Maybe 90 kilometres... perhaps one hour from Baghdad, inshallah [God willing]." It was in Babylon, at Belshazzar's feast, that the eclipse of this fabulous city and the empire it controlled, reaching out to the Mediterranean and what we know as Israel, was foretold, according to the prophet Daniel.
The timing of Mr. Blair's announcement was foretold by a decision to cancel a trip to Germany set for Monday.
