In
Norse mythology,
Nótt (
Old Norse "night") is
night personified, grandmother of
Thor. 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. Nótt's third marriage was to the god
Dellingr and this resulted in their son
Dagr, the personified day (although some manuscript variations list
Jörð as Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother instead). As a proper noun, the word
nótt appears throughout Old Norse literature.