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In Norse mythology
Norse mythology

Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled....
, Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi are the horses of Dagr
Dagr

In Norse mythology, Dagr is day personified. This personification appears in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 (day) and Nótt
Nótt

In Norse mythology, N?tt is night personified. N?tt, personified, is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 (night). The names Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi are bahuvrihi
Bahuvrihi

A bahuvrih? , or bahuvrihi compound , is a type of compound that refers to something that is not specified by any of its parts by themselves , especially a compound that refers to a possessor of an object specified: a bahuvrihi compound XY tends to mean someone or something which has a Y, and that Y has the characteristic X....
s, meaning "shining mane" and "rime mane" (or "frost mane"), respectively.






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In Norse mythology
Norse mythology

Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled....
, Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi are the horses of Dagr
Dagr

In Norse mythology, Dagr is day personified. This personification appears in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 (day) and Nótt
Nótt

In Norse mythology, N?tt is night personified. N?tt, personified, is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 (night). The names Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi are bahuvrihi
Bahuvrihi

A bahuvrih? , or bahuvrihi compound , is a type of compound that refers to something that is not specified by any of its parts by themselves , especially a compound that refers to a possessor of an object specified: a bahuvrihi compound XY tends to mean someone or something which has a Y, and that Y has the characteristic X....
s, meaning "shining mane" and "rime mane" (or "frost mane"), respectively. Skinfaxi pulled Dagr's chariot across the sky every day and his mane lit up the sky and the earth below.

The myth of Skinfaxi is believed to originate in Nordic Bronze Age
Nordic Bronze Age

The Nordic Bronze Age is the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age archaeological culture in Scandinavian pre-history, ca 1800 BCE - 500 BCE, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia....
 religion, for which there is strong evidence of beliefs involving a horse pulling the sun across the sky. The Trundholm sun chariot
Trundholm sun chariot

The Trundholm sun chariot , is a late Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark, that has been interpreted as a depiction of the sun being pulled by a mare that may have relation to later Norse mythology attested in 13th century sources....
 is drawn by a single horse, and was possibly imagined to be pulled back across the sky west to east by a second horse. Related are Arvak and Alsvid
Arvak and Alsvid

In Norse mythology, Arvakr and Alsvi?r are the horses which pull the sun, or S?l 's chariot, across the sky each day....
, the horses of the chariot of Sól, now a team of two horses pulling a single chariot.

See also

  • Shadowfax, a horse in J. R. R. Tolkien
    J. R. R. Tolkien

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
    's Middle-earth
    Middle-earth

    Middle-earth refers to the fictional lands where most of the stories of author J. R. R. Tolkien take place. These stories include The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....