Dagr

deity sky Norse single tradition · 3

Dagr is the personified day in Norse mythology. He represents the concept of daytime as a divine being within the Norse cosmological framework.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Norse mythology from the medieval period through living tradition.

Relationships

serves
Skinfaxi
co occurs with
Thjódrørir, Taranis
child of
Dellingr, Jörð, Nótt

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Sources

Source passages

“Dagr, the personified day in Norse mythology”

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“Skinfaxi, the horse that pulled Dagr, the personification of day, across the sky.”

#17715 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Jacob Grimm states that Dellingr is the assimilated form of Deglingr, which includes the name of Dellingr's son Dagr. Grimm adds that if the -ling likely refers to descent, and that due to this Dellingr may have been the "progenitor Dagr before him" or that the succession order has been reversed”

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