=Norbert= (_Father_), Pierre Parisot Norbert, the French missionary
(1697-1769).

=Norland= (_Lord_), father of Lady Eleanor Irwin, and guardian of Lady
Ramble (Miss Maria Wooburn). He disinherited his daughter for marrying
against his will, and left her to starve, but subsequently relented, and
relieved her wants and those of her young husband.--Inchbald, _Every One
has His Fault_ (1794).

=Norma=, a vestal who had been seduced, and discovers her paramour trying
to seduce a sister vestal. In despair, she contemplates the murder of
her base-born children.--Bellini, _Norma_ (1831); libretto, by Romani.

=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).

=Norm-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.).

[_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 gypsy, whose
pretensions to sup