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Norn

noun

(Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae. Synonym: weird sister.

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... and when it expelled the ancient goddesses, and confounded them as demons with Diana and Herodias, it added them and their votaries to the old class of malevolent sorcerers. There was but one step, but a simple act of the will, between the Norn and the hag, even before Christianity came in. As soon as it came, down went Goddess, Valkyrie, Norn, priestess, and soothsayer, into that unholy deep where the heathen hags and witches had their being; and, ...

— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent

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Words linked to "Norn" : Norse mythology, Skuld, Urth, Verdandi, Urd, Verthandi, Norse deity