Editing Urd (Oh My Goddess!) (section)

===Norse origins===
As with her fictional sisters, Belldandy and Skuld, Urd has her origins in [[Norse mythology]].<ref name="Perper64">{{cite journal | last = Perper | first = Timothy |author2=Cornog, Martha  | year = 2002 | title = Eroticism for the Masses: Japanese Manga Comics and the Assimilation into the U.S. | journal = Sexuality & Culture | volume = 6 | pages = 64 | doi = 10.1007/s12119-002-1000-4 | s2cid = 143692243 }}</ref> [[Urd (Norn)|Urd]] is one of the three [[Norns]] and represents the past, (the [[Norse mythology|Norse]] [[Verdandi]] representing the present, with [[Skuld (Norn)|Skuld]] representing the future).<ref name="McCarthy336">{{cite book | last = McCarthy| first = Helen | author-link = Helen McCarthy | year = 2006 | title = 500 Manga Heroes and Villains | publisher = Collins & Brown | pages = 336 | isbn = 1-84340-234-3 }}</ref> Nevertheless, other than her name, Urd (like her ''Oh My Goddess!'' sisters) has little in common with her Norse [[namesake]].<ref name="Perper64" />

Unlike the problems with [[transliteration]] that were encountered with Belldandy, "Urd" presented no significant difficulties for translators. While [[Toren Smith]] determined that "Urtht" would be the more accurate translation of the [[Old Norse]], when translating the manga series into [[English language|English]] he acknowledged that "Urd" was an accepted alternate translation, and thus was comfortable using the spelling.<ref name="Fujishima2006a183">{{cite book | last = Fujishima | first = Kosuke | author-link = Kōsuke Fujishima | year = 2006 | title = Oh My Goddess! | volume = 2 | publisher = [[Dark Horse Manga]]| location = Milwaukie, OR | isbn = 1-59307-457-3 | pages = 183 }}</ref>