Sounds like nonsense to me. Yes, the Norns are watching you, assuming the exist, but what does that have to do with anything?
She probably just did it to make things more exciting. It happens. The Norns, as stated before, share some vague similarities with the Moirae of Greek mythology, but only in that they are females with ties to past, present, and future. The Fates rule the universe (or maybe they don't - it was apparently a subject of contention among the ancient greeks) by determining the fate of each man and woman.
The three most important Norns are Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld.
Urd means 'that which has occured.'
Verdandi is apparently just the the present form of the verb 'to be,' while
Skuld, as you may have guessed, is the etymological ancestor of the word 'should.'
Norns arrive at births to allot a child his or her future:
HELGAKVITHA HUNDINGSBANA I
Twas night in the dwelling, | and Norns there came,
Who shaped the life | of the lofty one;
They bade him most famed | of fighters all
And best of princes | ever to be.
Mightily wove they | the web of fate,
While Bralund's towns | were trembling all;
And there the golden | threads they wove,
And in the moon's hall | fast they made them
If you read the Eddas, you may hear angry Norsemen blaming Norns for their crappy lives as well as stories of men given grand destinies by the Norns. Of course, it's likely that Norns are also in charge of alloting the boring fates, so mentioning them after a rune reading really means very little.
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