Editing Máni (section)

{{Short description|Moon personified in Germanic mythology}}
[[File:Máni and Sól by Lorenz Frølich.jpg|thumb|A depiction of Máni and Sól (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]].]]

'''Máni''' ([[Old Norse]]: {{IPA|non|ˈmɑːne|}}; "Moon"<ref name=ORCHARD109>Orchard (1997:109).</ref>) is the [[Lunar deity|Moon personified]] in [[Germanic mythology]]. Máni, 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]]. Both sources state that he is the brother of the personified sun, [[Sól (Sun)|Sól]], and the son of [[Mundilfari]], while the ''Prose Edda'' adds that he is followed by the children [[Hjúki and Bil]] through the heavens. As a [[proper noun]], Máni appears throughout Old Norse literature. Scholars have proposed theories about Máni's potential connection to the [[Northern Europe]]an notion of the [[Man in the Moon]], and a potentially otherwise unattested story regarding Máni through [[skald]]ic [[kenning]]s.