| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SW of junction of Little Slocan and Slocan Rivers, N of Castelgar, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°29'59"N, 117°50'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/12 |
| Related Maps: |
82F/12 82F/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Norns Mountains adopted 7 May 1900 on Geological Survey sheet 791, West Kootenay, 1900. Form of name changed to Norns Range 6 October 1955 on 82/SW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name submitted by R.W. Brock in his 2 April 1900 letter to Geological Survey of Canada. The Norns or Nornin were the three Goddesses of Destiny; it is believed that the Norns decided the destinies of Gods, Giants, Elves and Dwarfs as well as humankind. The Norns - Urda (the Past), Verdandi (the Present) and Skuld (the Future) - were said to guard a well of white water - Urda's Well - that was so holy that none might drink from it. (information provided December 2007 by Slocan historian Innes Cooper, encapsulated from The Encyclopedia of Mythology by A. Cotterell; Anness Publishing Ltd, London, 1996; and from Mythology by Edith Hamilton; Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1942.) Source: included with note |