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    Norns (redirect from Nornas)
    Bek-Pedersen suggests that the word norn has relation to the Swedish dialect word norna (nyrna), a verb that means 'communicate secretly'. This interpretation relates...
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  • Norna Robertson (FRSE, FInstP, FRAS, FAPS) is a lead scientist at LIGO at California Institute of Technology, and professor of experimental physics at...
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    Oeneis norna, the Norse grayling, is a species of butterfly in the subfamily Satyrinae, that occurs throughout Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic...
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    "Book IX". The Danish History – via Wikisource. "Norna-Gests þáttr". see also Norna-Gests þáttr "Norna-Gests þáttr". Translated by Hardman. Archived from...
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    or the Story of Norna-Gest is a legendary saga about the Norse hero Nornagestr, sometimes called Gestr, and here anglicized as Norna-Gest. Nornagests...
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  • Idrettslaget Norna-Salhus is a Norwegian athletics club from Salhus in Åsane, Bergen It was founded on 14 October 1935. The club originally had an association...
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    Calypso bulbosa (redirect from Norna)
    synonyms: Cytherea Salisb. (1812) Orchidium Sw. (1814) Calypsodium Link (1829) Norna Wahlenb. (1833) The valid botanical species name of the Calypso orchid is:...
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    for the Wicked (2011) Artigas - La Redota (2011), de César Charlone Las nornas (2011) La corona partida (2016) Voces (2020) Y todos arderán (2021) Los...
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  • September 1971) is a former Norwegian triple jumper. He represented IL Norna-Salhus. He finished tenth at the 1996 European Indoor Championships in Stockholm...
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    alliances with Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic Vikings. In c. 750, according to Norna-Gests þáttr saga from c. 1157, Sigurd Hring ("ring"), a legendary king of...
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    Men's Premier Handball League. In athletics, the city is dominated by IL Norna-Salhus, IL Gular and FIK BFG Fana, formerly also Norrøna IL and TIF Viking...
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    noted though that his brother, Regin, is described as being a dwarf in Norna-Gests þáttr and resembling a dwarf (Old Norse: dvergr of vǫxt), however...
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  • Nemesis Tesserae 40.0N 181.0E 355.0 1985 Nemesis, Greek goddess of fate. Norna Tesserae 50.0S 263.0E 700.0 1997 The Norns, Norse fate goddesses Nortia...
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    right hand, he had lost a finger. The battle ended with Swedish victory. In Norna-Gests þáttr, the account of Starkad takes place not long after the victory...
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    ('Ólafr the elf of Geirstaðir'), and a demonic elf at the beginning of Norna-Gests þáttr. The legendary sagas tend to focus on elves as legendary ancestors...
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    Bǫlvat es okkr, bróðir, bani em ek þinn orðinn; þat mun æ uppi, illr er dómr norna. We are cursed, kinsman, your killer am I! It will be never forgotten; the...
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    lines relating to the Battle of the Brávellir with Harald Wartooth. In Norna-Gests þáttr, it is said that Sigurd Ring was very old when he sent his son-in-law...
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    alliances with Swedish, Danish and Icelandic Vikings. In c. 750, according to Norna-Gests þáttr saga from c. 1157, Sigurd Ring, a legendary king of Denmark...
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  • texts from the same era. One of the texts may have been written in Norway. Norna-Gests þáttr has a brief mention of the king of Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd...
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    The Talk of the Tits: Some Notes on the Death of Sigurðr Fáfnisbani in Norna Gests þáttr. The Retrospective Methods Network (RMN) Newsletter: Approaching...
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  • Gesta Danorum, Hervarar saga, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Norna-Gests þáttr, Skáldskaparmál, Sögubrot, Ynglinga saga Stigandi Nafnaþulur...
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    Scott's Montrose (transl.) 831 831 85,2 (1828) XX, 9 No. 542 IV, 4 Gesang der Norna Mich führt mein Weg wohl meilenlang early 1825 Text by Scott from The Pirate...
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    Human Side of Bookplates. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press. Labouchere, Norna; Wharton, Edith (September 2009). Ladies' Book-Plates: An Illustrated Handbook...
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    Widsith. Heaðolaf (Beowulf) Helgi Hundingsbane (Edda, Völsunga saga and Norna-Gests þáttr) Hjörvard Ylfing (e.g. Heimskringla and Sögubrot) Hjörmund (e...
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    the raven (hrafna seðja, hrafna gleðja). An example of this is found in Norna-Gests þáttr, where Regin recites the following poem after Sigurd kills the...
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    visitors were amused with the Yellowleys' penurious ways, and encountered Norna, a relative of Magnus Troil who was supposed to be in league with the fairies...
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  • " Between 1847 and 1849, Anna and Louisa coauthored a tragedy entitled Norna; or, The Witch's Curse. It was published after Louisa's death in Comic Tragedies...
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    im Lebenstal'] for voice and piano (1825?) No. 2 D 831, Song "Gesang der Norna" ['Mich führt mein Weg wohl meilenlang'] for voice and piano (1825) D 907...
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    Nornagests-þáttr [The Prose Edda in excerpt along with Völsunga saga and Norna-Gests þáttr]. Bibliothek der ältesten deutschen Literatur-Denkmäler. XI...
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    on sarcophagi. Meleager's story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests þáttr. Meleager in art Meleager et Atalanta, after Giulio Romano Statue...
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