The third norn then continues the tale her sisters have begun, and tells how Wotan came home with a shivered spear one day, and bade the gods cut down the tree.
"Stories of the Wagner Opera"
H. A. Guerber
A luckless norn in times of old decreed, that in the water I should wade.
"The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson"
Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
But there are, indeed, many other norns, for, when a man is born, there is a norn to determine his fate.
"The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson"
Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson