Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in...

Look up Norn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Norn may refer to: Norn language, an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in Northern Isles...

Scottish man who was reportedly the last native speaker of Norn, a North Germanic language which had once been spoken throughout Shetland, Orkney and...

one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages; the others include Norwegian, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn and Greenlandic...

and Scottish English, a dialect of the English language. The Norn language, a North Germanic language, is now extinct. The Northumbrian Old English dialect...

The Norns (Old Norse: norn [ˈnorn], plural: nornir [ˈnornɪr]) are a group of deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies...

dialects Old Faroese † Middle Faroese † Modern Faroese Norn † Caithness Norn † Orkney Norn † Shetland Norn † Old Icelandic † Middle Icelandic † Modern Icelandic...

Lothian, with a degree of Norse influence from the Norn language, which is an extinct North Germanic language spoken on the islands until the late 18th century...

native speaker of the Norn language. The remote islands of Foula and Unst are variously claimed as the last refuges of the language in Shetland, where there...

evolved into the local Norn, which lingered until the end of the 18th century, and Norse may also have survived as a spoken language until the 16th century...

posited. Other examples of substrate languages are the influence of the now extinct North Germanic Norn language on the Scots dialects of the Shetland...

certain functions, being a registration county. The Norn language was historically the language of everyday communication for people in Caithness, but...

Unst (/ˈʌnst/; Norn: Ønst) is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the...

Lerwick (/ˈlɛrɪk/ or /ˈlɜːrwɪk/; Old Norse: Leirvik; Norn: Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh...

'laird' and 'truck'. The island was one of the last places where the Norn language was spoken (although it is claimed that Walter Sutherland of Skaw in...

written in Norn, the extinct North Germanic language once spoken in Orkney and Shetland, and is the only surviving work of any length in that language. It is...

areas under Norwegian influence Greenlandic Norse Norn language, an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in Shetland and Orkney, off the north...

trow ("evil spirit, troll"), appears related, possibly via a unrecorded Norn: *drog ("draugr"), but also effected by Old Norse: trǫll ("troll"), which...

Norse dialect are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, and the extinct Norn language of Orkney and Shetland, although Norwegian...

have been foreign-imposed usurpations of Irish national self-determination. Norn Iron or "Norniron" – is an informal and affectionate local nickname used...

by Carolus Clusius. The terms swaabie (from Norn: swartbak, lit. 'black back'), baagie and baigie (Norn: bagi, from Old Norse: bak, lit. 'back') are...

Shetland was referred to as Hjaltland. Gradually, the Scandinavian Norn language previously spoken by the inhabitants of the islands was replaced by...

The Northern Isles (Scots: Northern Isles; Old Norse: Norðreyjar; Norn: Nordøjar) are a chain (or archipelago) of islands of Scotland, located off the...

hope) Selkirk: At spreta incolumem vita defendere famam Shetland Islands: Norn: Með lögum skal land byggja (By law shall the land be built up) Thurso: Scots:...

a dialect of the Scots language. It is derived from Lowland Scots, with a degree of Norwegian influence from the Norn language. Due to the influence of...

(/ˈɡeɪlɪk/ GAY-lik), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch...

Indo-European languages. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is the best understood of all proto-languages of its...

Old Norse completely replaced the local languages and over time evolved into the now extinct Norn language. Some modern words and names only emerge and...

Shetland Norn language, where it means ‘huldrefolk’("the hidden people", fairies), ‘troll-folk’, or ‘ghost’. As drow is not a Norse language spelling...

Kirkwall (Scots: Kirkwa, Kirkwaa, or Kirkwal; Norn: Kirkavå) is the largest town in Orkney, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland. First mentioned...