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NORNA OF THE FITFUL HEAD

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Norna of the Fitful Head A character in Sir Walter Scott's Pirate, to illustrate that singular kind of insanity which is ingenious in self-imposition, as those who fancy a lunatic asylum their own palace, the employés thereof their retinue, and the porridge provided a banquet fit for the gods. Norna's real name was Ulla Troil, but after her amour with Basil Mertoun (Vaughan), and the birth of a son, named Clement Cleveland, she changed her name out of shame. Towards the end of the novel she gradually recovered her right mind. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NORNA OF THE FITFUL HEAD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4F 52 4E 41      4F 46      54 48 45      46 49 54 46 55 4C      48 45 41 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

                

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001111 01010010 01001110 01000001 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01010100 01000110 01010101 01001100 00100000 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#82 &#78 &#65 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#84 &#70 &#85 &#76 &#32 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 0052 004E 0041      004F 0046      0054 0048 0045      0046 0049 0054 0046 0055 004C      0048 0045 0041 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48495248352494025442392404354405546242393538

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