Nótt
Norse · numen · primordial · Recorded classification
Night is a giantess and Day is her son by one of the gods, and night rides first. Germanic peoples counted time in nights rather than days — a fortnight is fourteen nights — and the mythology says why: the dark is older, and the light is descended from it. The frost on the grass in the morning is from her horse's bit.
Children
Domains
- night
Relations
- mother of: DagrThe son who follows her round the sky.Reference treatment of Nótt and Dagr as night and day in continuous succession, Nótt a jötun and Dagr of the Æsir. (secondary)
Sources
- Nótt is night personified in Norse myth, a jötunn, mother of Dagr, riding the horse Hrímfaxi.: Reference treatments of Nótt and Dagr. (secondary)