The Eddas

Mundilfare

Role: father of Moon and Sun · 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: Sun 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.”

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

  • child: Moon “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.”
  • child: Sun “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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