List of Lore References to the House of Mundilfari

Manny Olds, Head Lunatic

Unless otherwise noted, the links are to the Northvegr lore library. You can browse this site at http://www.northvegr.org.

• Gylfaginning 10-13. Summarizes the whole family, their horses and wolves.
• Gylfaginning 51. Sun and Moon at Ragnarok.
• Skaldskaparmal 26. Ways to refer to Sun. (Includes extract from Skuli Þorsteinsson's poem about the sunset)
• Skaldskaparmal 56-57. Kennings for the sky figures.
• Voluspa 5-6. The gods establish the House of Mundilfari as time-tellers.
• Grimnir 37-39. Sun.
• Alvis 13-16. Sun and Moon.
• Vafthrudnir 11-14, 22-25. Sun, Moon, Night, and Day.
• Old Norwegian Rune Poem. Sun.
• Second Merseburg Charm. Sunna and Sinthgunt her sister. (Trans. by D.L. Ashliman)
• Sigrdifa 3, 15. "Hail Day" invocation and Sun.
• Trundholm chariot. Sun-wagon. (From exhibition at German National Museum)

I have compiled the text of all these into a handout for a presentation. CLICK HERE (.doc file, 108KB)

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Last Modified 19 July 2009.
Manny Olds, oldsma@pobox.com