[2] töfrnornir ‘magic-Norns’: A hap. leg. While the Norns appear elsewhere as a threesome of fatal women (Dillmann 2002a), here they seem to present a younger development in which the Norns are included in a series of other baleful mythical creatures. Here the saga uses the word töfr n. pl., a concept initially applied to equipment and instruments used for magic, but then later for sorcery in general (cf. Wesche 1940, 5-17; Dillmann 2006, 130-2; AEW: taufr).
References
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- Dillmann, François-Xavier. 2002a. ‘Nornen’. In RGA, 21, 388-94.
- Wesche, Heinrich. 1940. Der althochdeutsche Wortschatz im Gebiete des Zaubers und der Weissagung. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache 1. Halle: Niemeyer.
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