Hjúki
In Norse mythology, Hjúki (possibly meaning "the one returning to health") is one of a brother and sister pair of children who follow the personified Moon, Máni, across the heavens. Hjúki is solely attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
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When
- First attested
- 1200 CE
- Attested period
- 1200 – 1300
- Historical notes
- Appears in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mánagarm, Bilwis, Man in the Moon, Mundilfari, Sol, Dís
- serves
- Máni
- allied with
- Bil
- sibling of
- Bil
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“suggestions have been made that Hjúki and Bil may have been of minor mythic significance, or that they were made up outright by Snorri, while Anne Holtsmark (1945) posits that Snorri may have known or had access to a now lost verse source wherein Hjúki and Bil personified the waxing and waning moon”
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“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”
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