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Norn
1[ nawrn ]
noun
- an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
Norn
2[ nawrn ]
noun
, Scandinavian Mythology.
- any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past Urd, the goddess of the present Verdandi, and the goddess of the future Skuld.
Norn
1/ nɔːn /
noun
- the medieval Norse language of the Orkneys, Shetlands, and parts of N Scotland. It was extinct by 1750
Norn
2/ nɔːn /
noun
- Norse myth any of the three virgin goddesses of fate, who predestine the lives of the gods and men
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Norn1
C17: from Old Norse norŕœna Norwegian, from northr north
Origin of Norn2
C18: Old Norse
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Example Sentences
A luckless Norn in times of old decreed, that in the water I should wade.
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The Norn scene is as purely theatrical as anything he wrote; the atmosphere is, so to speak, artificially weird.
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Gud and Rosta, and the youngest norn, Skuld, always ride to sway the battle and choose the slain.
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But there are indeed many other Norns, for when a man is born there is a Norn to determine his fate.
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The first Norn unwound from her waist a golden rope and tied one end of it to a branch of the fir tree.
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