Wagner based his interpretation of Erda on Jord, Thor's mother by Odin, and the daughter of Annar and the personification of night, Nótt.

* Nótt, the personification of night in Norse mythology

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

Depending on manuscript variation, the Prose Edda adds that Dagr is either Dellingr's son by Nótt, the personified night, or Jörð, the personified Earth.

In chapter 10, the enthroned figure of High states that Dagr is the son of the couple of Dellingr of the Æsir and his wife Nótt (" night ").

In Norse mythology, Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi are the horses of Dagr ( day ) and Nótt ( night ).

The Prose Edda adds that, depending on manuscript variation, he is either the third husband of Nótt, the personified night, or the husband of Jörð, the personified day.

In Norse mythology, Nótt ( Old Norse " night ") is night personified, grandmother of Thor.

In Norse mythology, Naglfari is the father of Auðr by the personified night, Nótt.

In Norse mythology, Narfi or Nörfi ( Nǫrfi ), also called Nörr ( Nǫrr ), is the father of Nótt, the personified night.

In Norse mythology, Auðr ( Old Norse " prosperity ") is the son of the personified night, Nótt, fathered by Naglfari, and uncle of Thor.

In Norse mythology, according to the Gylfaginning, Annar ( Old Norse Annarr ' second, another ') is the father of Jörð ( Mother Earth ) by Nótt ( the Night ).

* Auðr, the son of Nótt and Naglfari in Norse mythology

Nótt rides her horse in this 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo.

Nótt rides before Dagr, and foam from her horse Hrímfaxi's bit sprinkles the earth.

In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nótt is listed as the daughter of a figure by the name of Nörvi ( with variant spellings ) and is associated with the horse Hrímfaxi, while the Prose Edda features information about Nótt's ancestry, including her three marriages.

Odin took Nótt and her son Dagr, placed them into the sky with a chariot and a horse each, and they ride around the earth every 24 hours.

Odin took Dagr and his mother Nótt, gave them each a chariot and a horse — Dagr receiving the horse Skinfaxi, whose mane illuminates all the sky and the earth — and placed them in the sky to ride around the earth every 24 hours.

" Nótt " by Peter Nicolai Arbo.

In chapter 10, the enthroned figure of High states that Nótt is the daughter of a jötunn from Jötunheimr by the name of " Norfi or Narfi ".

Naglfar is attested in a single mention in the Prose Edda ( written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ) book Gylfaginning, where he is described as one of a series of three husbands of Nótt, and that the couple produced a son, Auðr.

However, scholar Haukur Thorgeirsson points out that the four manuscripts of Gylfaginning vary in their descriptions of the family relations between Nótt, Jörð, Dagr, and Dellingr.

In other words, depending on the manuscript, either Jörð or Nótt is the mother of Dagr and partner of Dellingr.

Haukur details that " the oldest manuscript, U, offers a version where Jǫrð is the wife of Dellingr and the mother of Dagr while the other manuscripts, R, W and T, cast Nótt in the role of Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother ", and argues that " the version in U came about accidentally when the writer of U or its antecedent shortened a text similar to that in RWT.

In chapter 10 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High states that Dellingr is a god and the third husband of Nótt.

Odin placed both Dellingr's son, Dagr, and Dellingr's wife, Nótt, in the sky, so that they may ride across it with their horses and chariots every 24 hours.

However, scholar Haukur Thorgeirsson points out that the four manuscripts of Gylfaginning vary in their descriptions of the family relations between Nótt, Jörð, Dagr, and Dellingr.

In other words, depending on the manuscript, either Jörð or Nótt is the mother of Dagr and partner of Dellingr.

Haukur details that " the oldest manuscript, U, offers a version where Jǫrð is the wife of Dellingr and the mother of Dagr while the other manuscripts, R, W and T, cast Nótt in the role of Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother ", and argues that " the version in U came about accidentally when the writer of U or its antecedent shortened a text similar to that in RWT.

In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Nótt is again personified.

Nótt is described as " black and swarthy ", and has had three marriages.

Finally, Nótt marries the god Dellingr, and the couple have Dagr, who takes after his " father's people " in brightness and fairness.

However, scholar Haukur Thorgeirsson points out that the four manuscripts of Gylfaginning vary in their descriptions of the family relations between Nótt, Jörð, Dagr, and Dellingr.

Haukur details that " the oldest manuscript, U, offers a version where Jǫrð is the wife of Dellingr and the mother of Dagr while the other manuscripts, R, W and T, cast Nótt in the role of Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother ", and argues that " the version in U came about accidentally when the writer of U or its antecedent shortened a text similar to that in RWT.

She is " counted among the ásynjar ( goddesses )" and is the daughter of Annar and Nótt and half-sister of Auðr and Dagr.

Her mother was Nyx, the personification of night.

Her mother, Nyx, is the personification of night, and her father, Erebos, the personification of darkness.

Diarmuid, while hunting one night, met a woman who was the personification of youth.

Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).

* Máni, a personification of the moon in Norse mythology

The Old Norse word hildr is a common noun meaning " battle " and it is not always clear when the poets had the valkyrie in mind, as a personification of battle.

In Norse mythology, Elli ( Old Norse " old age ") is a personification of old age who, in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, defeats Thor in a wrestling match.

* Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology

In Norse mythology, Máni is the male personification of the moon who crosses the sky in a horse and carriage.

In Norse mythology, hamingja ( Old Norse " luck ") refers to two concepts ; the personification of the good fortune or luck of an individual or family, and, secondly, refers to the altered appearance of shape-shifters.

In Norse mythology, Logi or Loge ( Old Norse " fire ") is a fire giant, god and personification of fire.

Snær ( Old Norse ) Snærr, East Norse Sniō, Latin Nix, Nivis ) ' snow ', in Norse mythology seemingly a personification of snow, appearing in extant text as an euhemerized legendary Scandinavian king.

* Loge, Swedish modernization and sometime anglicization of Logi, a personification of fire in Norse mythology and legend, discussed in the article Fornjót

In English its first recorded use, in the sense of the entirety of the phenomena of the world, was very late in history in 1266 ; however natura, and the personification of Mother Nature, was widely popular in the Middle Ages and as a concept seated between the properly divine and the human, it can be traced to Ancient Greece-though Earth or Eorthe in the Old English period may have been personified as a goddess and the Norse also had a goddess called Jord Earth.

It was named in April 2007 after Ægir, a giant from Norse mythology, the personification of tranquil seas, the one who soothes storms away.