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Examples
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And yet all the time they were coming towards me; perhaps some fabulous apparition, a ring of witches or of norns who would propound their oracles to me.
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What the future holds for Maurice Ravel is known only to the three norns.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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The Dusk of the Gods portrays at the opening the three norns or fates weaving and measuring the thread of destiny.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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The Dusk of the Gods portrays at the opening the three norns or fates weaving and measuring the thread of destiny.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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The norns sprinkled the top with water from Urd's fountain and thus kept it alive, although Nidhug gnawed its roots.
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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Thou wretched Fridthjof, the norns will ne'er retreat;
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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And which way norns did threaten, they smote a shield;
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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This refers to the norns who dwelt at the well of Urd by the world-tree Yggdrasil.
Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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Upon the norns 'black shield rand, -- unexplained before.
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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The fountain from which the norns sprinkled the tree Ygdrasil.
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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