The Eddas

Sun

Role: daughter of Mundilfare · First appears: Younger Edda · The Fooling of Gylfe · Chapter V · The Creation (continued)

Life events

  • Mundilfare gave Sun in marriage to Glener.(Younger Edda · The Fooling of Gylfe · Chapter V · The Creation (continued))
    • With: Mundilfare Glener
    • “They were so fair and beautiful that he called his son Moon, and his daughter, whom he gave in marriage to a man by name Glener, he called Sun.”
  • The gods took Sun and Moon and set them in heaven, assigning them to drive the sun’s car and guide the moon.(Younger Edda · The Fooling of Gylfe · Chapter V · The Creation (continued) · 📍 heaven)
    • With: Moon
    • “But the gods became wroth at this arrogance, took both the brother and the sister, set them up in heaven, and made Sun drive the horses that draw the car of the sun”

Younger Edda · The Fooling of Gylfe · Chapter V · The Creation (continued)

  • parent: Mundilfare “Mundilfare hight the man who had two children. They were so fair and beautiful that he called his son Moon, and his daughter, whom he gave in marriage to a man by name Glener, he called Sun.”
  • married with Glener “Mundilfare hight the man who had two children. They were so fair and beautiful that he called his son Moon, and his daughter, whom he gave in marriage to a man by name Glener, he called Sun.”

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