NORNS (0. Norse, Nornir)

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NORNS (0. Norse, Nornir) , in Northern mythology, the

female

FEMALE

divinities of fate, somewhat similar to the Gr. Moipac and the Roman Parcae. Like them they are generally represented as three in number, and they are said to spin, or weave, the destiny of men. Their dwelling is beside the "

Spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

of fate," beneath the " world-tree,"

Yggdrasil

YGGDRASIL

's ash, which they water with draughts from the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

. In some cases the Norns are not easily to be distinguished from the Valkyries (q.v.). Some-times again they appear as prophetesses (volur) at the

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
from the root of the verb " to bear ")

of children, whose destiny they foretell. The most famous of these stories is contained in the Theittr of Nornagesti, and has a curious resemblance to the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

legend

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

Althaea

ALTHAEA

and

Meleager

MELEAGER (Gk. M€X aypos)

. Similar beings seem to have been known among other Teutonic peoples in early times. (See TEUTONIC PEOPLES, 7). (H, M. C )

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