Pater Noster in Norn

Language: Norn (Wikipedia)

Favor i ir i¹ chimrie, helleur ir i nam thite, gilla cosdum thite cumma, veya thine mota vara gort o yurn sinna gort i chimrie, ga vus da on dalight brow vora, firgive vus sinna vora sin vee firgive sindara mutha vus, lyv vus² ye i tumtation³ min delivera vus fro olt ilt. Amen,⁴ Or, On sa meteth vera.

Footnotes

1: Pantographia, London: 'iri' instead of 'ir i'
2: Pantographia, London: 'us &' instead of 'vus'
3: Pantographia, London: 'tuntation
4: Pantographia: text is cut off at this point

Attested In

• Account of the Islands of Orkney p. 68 (Norns)
• London p. 65 (Orcadica)
• Chamberlayne p. 74 (Orcadice) – ex editis exbibui
• Hervas p. 191 n. 223 (Orcadica)
• Pantographia p. 216 (Orcadian) – Orat. Dom. p. 65
• Adelung Part 2 p. 304 n. 182 (Mundart auf den Orkneys) – Aus James Wallace's account of the Islands of Orkneys, Lond. 1700, S. 68

Bibliography

• The Lord's Prayer in Orkney and Shetland Norn Revisited by Laurits Rendboe (2002). In: NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution, Volume 41, Issue 1, Jan 2002, p. 73 - 90
• Orkney's Lord's Prayer