Sköll
Norse · numen · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
The registry held Fenrir and neither of his sons. That the sun is chased daily by a wolf which will eventually catch her is the Norse answer to a question most cosmologies do not ask — why the sun hurries — and the eclipse is the near miss.
Parentage
- parent: Fenrir
Domains
- pursuit
Relations
- enemy: SólReference treatment of Sköll chasing Sól. (secondary)
- sibling: HatiReference treatment of Sköll and Hati as sons of Fenrir by an unnamed giantess. (secondary)
Sources
- Sköll is the wolf that pursues the sun across the sky, a son of Fenrir by an unnamed giantess, and the brother of Hati who pursues the moon.: Reference treatments of Sköll, Hati and the wolves of the sky. (secondary)