In Norse mythology, according to the ''

Gylfaginning ''Gylfaginning'' (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; c. 20,000 words; 13th century Old Norse pronunciation ) is the first part of the 13th century ''Prose Edda'' after the Prologue. The ''Gylfaginning'' deals with t ...

'', Annar (

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Annarr 'second, another') is the father of

Jörð Jörð ( non, Jǫrð, lit=earth) is the personification of earth and a goddess in Norse mythology. She is the mother of the thunder god Thor and a sexual partner of Odin. Jörð is attested in Danish historian ''Gesta Danorum'', composed in the ...

( Mother Earth) by

Nótt In Norse mythology, Nótt (Old Norse: , "night"Orchard (1997:120).) is night personified. In both the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the ''Prose Edda'', composed in the 13th century, Nótt is li ...

(the Night). The form Ónar (Old Norse Ónarr 'gaping') is found as a variant. Annar/Ónar is also the name of a dwarf in the catalogue of dwarfs in the ''

Völuspá ''Vǫluspá'' (also ''Völuspá'', ''Vǫlospá'' or ''Vǫluspǫ́''; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress'; reconstructed Old Norse: ) is the best known poem of the ''Poetic Edda''. It tells the story of the creation of the world and ...

'' that is repeated in the ''Gylfaginning''.

Attestations

In the pseudo-historical genealogy of Odin's ancestors in the introduction to Snorri Sturluson's ''

Prose Edda The ''Prose Edda'', also known as the ''Younger Edda'', ''Snorri's Edda'' ( is, Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as ''Edda'', is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been t ...

'', a certain Athra is said to be he "whom we call Annar". What this refers to is unknown. (See

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for discussion of the section of this genealogy in which Annar appears.) In the ''Gylfaginning'' Snorri writes of Nótt:''

'' 10, 36.Lindow (2001:205).

She was given to the man named Naglfari; their son was
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. Afterward she was wedded to him that was called Annar; Jörð Earth'was their daughter.

Snorri might have been using a source in which ''annar'' 'second, another' was intended to mean Odin, for he himself had just previously written of Odin: "The earth was his daughter and his wife...". But in the ''

Skáldskaparmál ''Skáldskaparmál'' (Old Norse: 'The Language of Poetry'; c. 50,000 words; ; ) is the second part of the ''Prose Edda''. The section consists of a dialogue between Ægir, the divine personification of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, ...

'' Snorri uses the form ''Ónar'' instead, giving "daughter of Ónar" as one of the kennings for Jörð. Snorri also cites from

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In council it was determined
That the King's friend, wise in counsel,
Should wed the Land, sole daughter
Of Ónar, greenly wooded.

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