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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/ ɔː /
noun
- Norse myth any of the three virgin goddesses of fate, who predestine the lives of the gods and men
Norn
2/ ɔː /
noun
- the medieval Norse language of the Orkneys, Shetlands, and parts of N Scotland. It was extinct by 1750
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of Norn1
Origin of Norn2
Example Sentences
The island was one of the last places in Shetland where the old Norn language, a relic of Norse times, was spoken.
It’s called the Norn cell, named after the Norse deities who were believed to control human fate.
“You have the ability to see images of the past, present, and future as you knit. Events left on the threads of the universe. Like the Norns of old.”
He portrays all three of the Norns, the daughters of Erda who foretell destiny.
The islands were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468, and the Norn language - a form of Old Norse spoken on the islands - died out in the mid-19th Century.
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