Narfi

Narfi (Old Norse: ), also Nörfi (O.N.: ), Nari or Nörr (O.N.: ), is a jötunn in Norse mythology, and the father of Nótt, the personified night.

Narfi (Old Norse: ), also Nörfi (O.N.: ), Nari or Nörr (O.N.: ), is a jötunn in Norse mythology, and the father of Nótt, the personified night. ==Attestations== According to the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Nótt is the daughter of the jötunn "Nörfi or Narfi". However, in the Poetic Edda, Nótt's father is called Nörr (not to be confused with Nór), primarily for reasons of alliteration. This name is only recorded in the dative form Nǫrvi (variant spelling Naurvi). The name of Nótt's father is recorded in several forms in Old Norse sources: Naurr, Nörr (dative Naurvi, Nörvi): "Vafþrúðnismál" 25 "Nótt var Naurvi borin", "Alvíssmál" 29 "Nótt in Naurvi kennda". Narvi, Narfi: Gylfaginning 10, a poem of Egill Skallagrímsson "niðerfi Narfa". Norvi, Nörvi: Gylfaginning 10, "Forspjallsljóð" 7 "kund Nörva". Njörfi, Njörvi: Gylfaginning 10, "Sonatorrek" "Njörva nipt". Nori: Gylfaginning 10. Nari: "Höfuðlausn" 10. Neri: "Helgakviða Hundingsbana I", 4. ==Theories== Various scholars have argued that Snorri based his genealogy of Nótt on classical models. They relate Narfi to Erebus, which would make , used in "Helgakviða Hundingsbana I" for a Norn who comes in the night, an appellation derived from the Parcae, who were Erebus' daughters. ==Legacy== In "A Great Man's Return", a song on their album Valdr Galga, the Swedish Viking metal band Thyrfing refer to "Norve's starfilled sky". In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Part One, The Fellowship of the Ring, the dwarf maker of the Doors of Durin signed them "Narvi"; in drafts, Tolkien spelt the name Narfi as in the Prose Edda. In a season 13 episode of Supernatural, Narfi captures and sells the archangel Gabriel to Asmodeus. ==Notes== ==References==

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