Norn

From Old Norse norn.

Norn (plural Norns)

1. (Norse mythology) Any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny.

• (goddess of fate or destiny): Fate (Greek mythology)

• Urd (“Fate” or “Past”)
• Verdandi (“Happening” or “Present”)
• Skuld (“Debt” or “Future”)

Borrowed from Scots Norn, from Middle Scots Norn (“Norn, Norwegian”), from Middle English Norn, Norren (“Norwegian”), from Old English Norren, Norn (“Norwegian”), from Old Norse norrǿnn (“northern, Norwegian”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz (“northern”).

Doublet of northern and Northron.

Norn

1. An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

• (language): Shetlandish, Shetlandic

From Norrene.

Norn

1. Related or pertaining to Norway; Norwegian

• Norenissce
• Noreine

• “Noreine, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 April 2018.

Norn

1. alternative form of Norren