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Dagr (Old Norse 'day') [1] is the divine personification of the day in Norse mythology. He appears in the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson .
[53] [55] The rise to prominence of male, war-oriented gods such as Odin, relative to protective female gods with a closer association to fertility and watery sites, has been proposed to have taken place around 500 CE, coinciding with the development of an expansionist aristocratic military class in southern Scandinavia. [56]
She is the mother of the thunder god Thor and a sexual partner of Odin. [1] Jörð is attested in Danish history Gesta Danorum , composed in the 12th century by Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus ; the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century by an unknown individual or individuals; and the Prose Edda , also composed in the 13th century.
Odin the Wanderer (the meaning of his name Gangleri); illustration by Georg von Rosen, 1886. Odin (Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology. The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar, particularly in the Old Norse record.
Odin placed both Dellingr's son, Dagr, and Dellingr's wife, Nótt, in the sky, so that they may ride across it with their horses and chariots every 24 hours. [ 7 ] However, scholar Haukur Thorgeirsson points out that the four manuscripts of Gylfaginning vary in their descriptions of the family relations between Nótt, Jörð, Dagr, and Dellingr.
The names Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi mean "shining mane" and "frost mane", respectively. Skinfaxi pulls Dagr's chariot across the sky every day and his mane lights up the sky and earth below. [1] [2] Similarly, "froth" is believed to fall from Hrímfaxi's bit to the earth and become dew. [2]
Fjörgyn (or Jörð; Old Norse 'earth') is a personification of earth in Norse mythology, and the mother of the thunder god Thor, the son of Odin. The masculine form Fjörgynn is portrayed as the father of the goddess Frigg, the wife of Odin. [1]
Odin, Lóðurr, and Hœnir create the first humans, Askr and Embla. Lóðurr ( Old Norse : [ˈloːðurː] ; also Lodurr ) is a god in Norse mythology . In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá , he is assigned a role in animating the first humans, but apart from that he is hardly ever mentioned, and remains obscure.