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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
- 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
- Norse myth any of the three virgin goddesses of fate, who predestine the lives of the gods and men
Norn
2/ nɔːn /
noun
- the medieval Norse language of the Orkneys, Shetlands, and parts of N Scotland. It was extinct by 1750
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Origin of Norn1
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Example Sentences
A luckless Norn in times of old decreed, that in the water I should wade.
The Norn scene is as purely theatrical as anything he wrote; the atmosphere is, so to speak, artificially weird.
Gud and Rosta, and the youngest norn, Skuld, always ride to sway the battle and choose the slain.
But there are indeed many other Norns, for when a man is born there is a Norn to determine his fate.
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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