Definitions for Norns

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Norns Norn

Spelling: [nawrn]

IPA: /nɔrn/

Norns is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Norns (nnors).

Definitions for Norns

noun

1. an extinct Norse dialect, spoken until early modern times in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in parts of northern Scotland.
2. 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)

Origin of Norns

Old Norse norrœnn, earlier northrœnn Norwegian, literally, northern

Examples for Norns

At length her voice wavered, the strange, weird song ceased, and she tossed the thread to the second Norn.

I don't think it would be such a bad sort of thing, do you, Norn?

We've got a surprise for you, Norn, but we won't tell till we've had lunch; will we, Ju?

But there are indeed many other Norns, for when a man is born there is a Norn to determine his fate.

We caught our first view of Bruce Haydon here—remember, Norn?

As the second Norn took the thread in her worn hands, she crooned a sorrowful song about the present.

Did it ever occur to you that our little Judy might make a fair actress, Norn?

There isn't anything that tells the truth so straight as our sort of work, Norn.

Come on, Norn, we're about dead, standing on these flinty-hearted steps.

"I've had a mighty lucky day, Norn," she said with real thankfulness.