Bil

deity sky Norse single tradition · 4

Bil is a goddess in Norse mythology whose status as a deity is stated alongside Sól in the Prose Edda.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
1000 CE
Attested period
1000 – 1300
Historical notes
Documented in the Prose Edda (13th century) as a goddess.

Relationships

serves
Máni
allied with
Hjúki
syncretized with
Bilwis
sibling of
Hjúki

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Sources

Source passages

“In chapter 35, Sól's status as a goddess is stated by High, along with Bil.”

#16179 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The village of Bilsby in Lincolnshire, England (from which the English surname Billing derives) has been proposed as having been named after Bil.”

#18362 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“account of Máni, and Hjúki and Bil (featuring, as Simek states, "a man with a pole and a woman with a bushel") found in chapter 11 of Gylfaginning with modern accounts of the Man in the Moon”

#19385 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In Mandaean cosmology, the name for Jupiter is Bil (ࡁࡉࡋ), which is derived from the name Bel.”

#25855 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001