Sol’s Family Tree

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Family

• Glenr(spouse),Daughter of Sól(child)— Marriage

  Sól is wed to Glenr, and before the wolf Sköll devours her at Ragnarök she bears the Daughter of Sól, who will ride the same celestial paths in the renewed world.

• Mundilfari(parent),Mani(sibling)

  Mundilfari named his son Máni and daughter Sól after the moon and sun. The gods, angered by his presumption, set the siblings to drive the actual celestial bodies across the sky, as told in Gylfaginning.

Enemy of

• Skoll

  Sköll, son of Fenrir, endlessly pursues Sól across the sky. At Ragnarök, when Fenrir breaks free, Sköll finally catches and devours the sun, plunging the world into darkness.

Slain by

• Skoll

  At Ragnarök, Sköll finally catches and devours Sól the sun, an event foretold since the beginning of his eternal chase across the sky.

Equivalent to

• Sunna(Germanic)

  Sunna and Sól are the same sun goddess across Germanic and Norse traditions — she who drives the sun's chariot across the sky with a wolf forever at her heels, known as Sunna in the Continental charms and as Sól in the Eddas.