Editing Nótt (section)

===''Prose Edda''===
In the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', Nótt is again personified. In chapter 10, the enthroned figure of High states that Nótt is the daughter of a jötunn from [[Jötunheimr]] by the name of "[[Narfi|Norfi or Narfi]]". Nótt is described as "black and swarthy", and has had three marriages. Her first marriage was with [[Naglfari]], and the two produced a son by the name of [[Auðr (mythological character)|Auðr]]. Nótt's second marriage was to [[Annar]], resulting in their daughter [[Jörð]], the personified earth. Finally, Nótt marries the god Dellingr, and the couple have [[Dagr]], who takes after his "father's people" in brightness and fairness. 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. Nótt rides before Dagr, and foam from her horse Hrímfaxi's [[Bit (horse)|bit]] sprinkles the Earth.<ref name=BYOCK19>Byock (2005:19).</ref>

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 Nátt is the mother of Dagr and partner of Dellingr. Haukur details that "the oldest manuscript, U, offers a version where Jǫrð is married to 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. The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition".<ref name="HAUKUR-159-168">Haukur (2008:159—168).</ref>

In the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Skáldskaparmál]]'', means of referring to Jörð are provided, including "daughter of Nótt".<ref name=FAULKES90>Faulkes (1995:90).</ref> Chapter 58 states that "Hrimfaxi or Fiorsvartnir draw the night",<ref name=FAULKES137>Faulkes (1995:137).</ref> and in chapter 64, "nótt" is stated as one of various words for time and a version of the ''Alvíssmál'' passage is cited.<ref name=FAULKES144>Faulkes (1995:144).</ref>