Crossword-Solution: NORN 4 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

The fire of battle raged around,-- Odin's steel shirt flew all unbound! The earl his ring-mail from him flung, Its steel rings on the wet deck rung; Part of it fell into the sea,-- A part was kept, a proof to be How sharp and thick the arrow-flight Among the sea-steeds in this fight." ENDNOTES: (1) Norn, one of the Fates, stands here for women, whose business it was to sew the rings of iron upon the cloth which made these ring-mail coats or shirts.

The tale is broken by the thread snapping in the hands of the third Norn; for the hour has arrived when man has taken his destiny in his own hands to shape it for himself, and no longer bows to circumstance, environment, necessity (which he now freely wills), and all the rest of the inevitables.

Have you lost your way?" "No, sir." "Pardon me; but having seen you this afternoon at 'Elm Bluff,' I thought it possible you had missed the road." Standing so straight and tall, with the sheen of the moon on her faultless features, he thought she looked the incarnation of some prescient Norn, fit for the well of Urda.

She had recently been digging into a couple of old volumes of classic myths and northland folklore which she had found in Aunt Olivia’s attic; and for us, god and goddess, laughing nymph and mocking satyr, norn and valkyrie, elf and troll, and “green folk” generally, were real creatures once again, inhabiting the orchards and woods and meadows around us, until it seemed as if the Golden Age had returned to earth.

The WAKEL differs from the NORN in its habits; although both ascend trees in pursuit of small birds and the young of the opossums.