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Vafthruthnismol

  Vafthruthnir spake:25.[1] "The father of day  is Delling called, And the night was begotten by Nor;Full moon and old  by the gods were fashioned, To tell the time for men."
  Othin spake:26. "Fourth answer me well,  if wise thou art called, If thou knowest it, Vafthruthnir, now:Whence did winter come,  or the summer warm, First with the gracious gods?"
 Vafthruthnir spake:27.[2] "Vindsval he was  who was winter's father, And Svosuth summer begat;"..............................

    enough, Mani is the boy and Sol the girl. According to Snorri, Sol drove the horses of the sun, and Mani those of the moon, for the gods, indignant that they should have been given such imposing names, took them from their father to perform these tasks. Cf. Grimnismol, 37.

  1. ↑ Delling ("the Dayspring"? Probably another form of the name, Dogling, meaning "Son of the Dew" is more correct): the husband of Not (Night); their son was Dag (Day); cf. Hovamol, 161. Nor: Snorri calls the father of Night Norvi or Narfi, and puts him among the giants. Lines 3-4: cf. Voluspo, 6.
  2. ↑ Neither the Regius nor the Arnamagnæan Codex indicates a lacuna. Most editors have filled out the stanza with two lines from late paper manuscripts: "And both of these  shall ever be, / Till the gods to destruction go." Bugge ingeniously paraphrases Snorri's prose: "Vindsval's father  was Vosuth called, / And rough is all his race." Vindsval: "the Wind-Cold," also called Vindljoni, "the Wind-Man." Svosuth: "the Gentle."

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