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Norman, forester of sir William Ashton lord-keeper of Scotland.—Sir W. Scott: Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

Norman, a “sea-captain,” in love with Violet the ward of lady Arundel. It turns out that this Norman is her ladyship’s son by her first husband, and heir to the title and estates; but lady Arundel, having married a second husband, had a son named Percy, whom she wished to make her heir. Norman’s father was murdered, and Norman, who was born three days afterwards, was brought up by Onslow, a village priest. At the age of 14 he went to sea, and became captain of a man-of war. Ten years later, he returned to Arundel, and though at first his mother ignored him, and Percy flouted him, his noble and generous conduct disarmed hostility, and he not only reconciled his half-brother, but won his mother’s affection, and married Violet his heart’s “sweet sweeting.”—Lord Lytton: The Sea-Captain (1839).

Norman-nan-Ord or Norman of the Hammer, one of the eight sons of Torquil of the Oak.—Sir W. Scott: Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

Normandy (The Gem of), Emma, daughter of Richard I. (died 1052).

Norna of the Fitful Head, “The Reimkennar.” Her real name was Ulla Troil, but after her seduction by Basil Mertoun (Vaughan), and the birth of a son named Clement Cleveland (the future pirate), she changed her name. Towards the end of the novel, Norna gradually recovered her senses. She was the aunt of Minna and Brenda Troil.—Sir W. Scott: The Pirate (time, William III.).

She thought that Mordaunt Mertoun was her son, but her son was really Cleveland the pirate. Basil Mertoun, the natural father of Cleveland, afterwards married, and Mordaunt was the son of this marriage. (For Nornas mistake, see ch. xxxiii.; for the explanation, see ch. xli.)

[One] cannot fail to trace in Norna—the victim of remorse and insanity, and the dupe of her own imposture, her mind too flooded with all the wild literature and extravagant superstitions of the north—something distinct from the Dumfriesshire gipsy, whose pretensions to supernatural powers are not beyond those of a Norwood prophetess.—The Pirate (introduction, 1821).