Northern mythology

6 NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY,
(or Onar) ; their daughter was Earth (lortS) ; lastly to
Dellmg, who was of the race of the ^Esir^ and their son was
Day^ who was fair^ bright and beautiful^ through his paternal
descent. xVll-father took Xight and Day, and gave
them two horses and two cars, and placed them in heaven,
that they might ride successively, in twenty-four hours'
time, round the earth. Night rides first with her horse
which is named Hrimfaxi, that bedews the earth each morn
with the di'ops from his bit. He is also called Fiorsvartnir^
The horse belonging to Day is called Skinfaxi, from
whose shining mane light beams forth over heaven and
earth. He is also called Glad (GlaiSr) and Drosul. The
Moon and the Sun are brother and sister; they are the
children
of ^lundilfori, who, on account of their beauty,
called his son Mani, and his daughter Sol ;
for which presumption
the gods in their anger took brother and sister
and placed them in heaven, and appointed Sol to drive the
horses that draw the chariot of the sun, which the gods
had formed, to give light to the world, of the sparks from
Muspellheim. Sol was married to a man named Glen
(Glenur, Glanur), and has to her car the horses Arvakur
(the watchful), and Alsvith (the rapid), under whose
shoulders the gods placed an ice-cold breeze to cool them.
Svalin (the cooling) is the name of a shield that stands
before the sun, which woidd else set waves and mountains
on fire. Mani directs the course of the moon, and regulates
Nyi and Nithi. He once took up two childi'en from
the earth, Bil and Hiuki (Hviki), as they were going from
the well of Byrgir, bearing on their
shoulders the bucket
Sseg, and the pole Simul. Their father was Yidfinn ; they
follow Mani, as may be observed from the earth. There
are also two wolves to be mentioned, one of which, named
Skoll, follows the sun, and which she fears will swallow
^ Finn Magnusen considers Fiorsvartnir as the name of a second horse
belonging to Night, and so of Glad. Lex. Myth, sub voce.