Editing Dagr (section)

==Svipdagr==
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[[Otto Höfler]] theorized that Dagr may be related to (or may be the same figure as) the hero [[Svipdagr]] (whose name means "the suddenly dawning day") who is attested in various texts. Among other sources, this figure is found in two poems compiled together and known as ''[[Svipdagsmál]]'' in the ''Poetic Edda'', the Prologue to the ''Prose Edda'', and by the name Swæfdæg in the mythical genealogies of the Anglian houses of [[History of Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon England]]. Otto Höfler also proposed that Svipdagr may have been a "Dagr of the [[Suebi]]", and because of the names of his family members, Sólbjartr ("the sun-light", indicating a potential god of the skies) and [[Gróa]] ("growth", indicating a possible goddess of growth), and his wooing of [[Menglöð]] (often identified with the goddess [[Freyja]]), he further suggested that Svipdagr may have been a fertility god.<ref name=SIMEK307>Simek (2007:55 and 307).</ref>