OF NIGHT AND DAY.

10. "A giant called Njorvi," continued Har, "who dwelt in Jotunheim,

had a daughter called Night (Nott) who, like all her race, was of a

dark and swarthy complexion. She was first wedded to a man called

Naglfari, and had by him a son named Aud, and afterwards to another

man called Annar, by whom she had a daughter called Earth (Jord). She

then espoused Delling, of the Æsir race, and their son was Day, (Dagr)

a child light and beauteous like his father. Then took All-father,

Night, and Day, her son, and gave them two horses and two cars, and

set them up in the heavens that they might drive successively one

after the other, each in twelve hours' time, round the world. Night

rides first on her horse called Hrimfaxi, that every morn, as he ends

his course, bedews the earth with the foam that falls from his bit.

The horse made use of by Day is named Skinfaxi, from whose mane is

shed light over the earth and the heavens."

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