Norna-Gests þáttr

Nornagests þáttr is as an episode of the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason in the medieval Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók.

[1] Norna-Gest is the son of a Danish man named Thord Thingbiter, who once dwelt on the estate of Grøning in Denmark.

However Skuld, the youngest of the Norns, deeming that the two others made rather light of her, determined to render void their promises of good fortune for the child.

The eldest Norn (Urðr) instantly extinguished the flame and asked his mother to hide it well.

After relating his life-story, Norna-Gest permits himself to be baptized at the king's desire, and lights the candle that the norn Skuld had prophesied about.