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Norn

   [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).
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Norn

   [nawrn]
noun
an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
Origin:
< Old Norse norrœnn, earlier northrœnn Norwegian, literally, northern
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Norn1 (nɔːn)
 
—n
Norse myth any of the three virgin goddesses of fate, who predestine the lives of the gods and men
 
[C18: Old Norse]

Norn2 (nɔːn)
 
—n
the medieval Norse language of the Orkneys, Shetlands, and parts of N Scotland. It was extinct by 1750
 
[C17: from Old Norse norŕœna Norwegian, from northr north]

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Norn
1770, from O.N. norn (pl. nornir), one of the female fates of Scand. mythology, related to Swed. dial. norna "to warn, to communicate secretly," perhaps ult. imitative of low murmuring (cf. M.H.G. narren "to growl, snarl").
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