† Nornsn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
= Norn n.1 Usually with the.
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a1688 J. Wallace Acct. Orkney (1700) 40 All speak English, after the Scots way, with as good an Accent as any County in the Kingdom, only some of the common People, amongst themselves, speak a Language they call Norns.
a1688 J. Wallace Acct. Orkney (1700) 106 To this day many of the inhabitants use the Norns.
1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 79 We were repeatedly assured that, no farther back than thirty years ago, there were ‘several old people that spoke the Norns’, i.e. the Norse, or Norwegian tongue.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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