Editing Dellingr (section)

===''Poetic Edda''===
Dellingr is referenced in the ''Poetic Edda'' poems ''[[Vafþrúðnismál]]'' and ''[[Hávamál]]''. In stanza 24 of ''Vafþrúðnismá'', the god [[Odin]] (disguised as "[[List of names of Odin|Gagnráðr]]") asks the [[jötunn]] [[Vafþrúðnir]] from where the day comes, and the night and its tides. In stanza 25, Vafþrúðnir responds:
<blockquote>
:Delling hight he who the day's father is, but
:night was of Nörvi born; the new and waning moons the
:beneficent powers created, to count the years for men.<ref name=THORPE13>Thorpe (1907:13).</ref>
</blockquote>
In ''Hávamál'', the [[Norse dwarves|dwarf]] Þjóðrœrir is stated as having recited an unnamed spell "before Delling's doors":
<blockquote>
:For the fifteenth I know what the dwarf Thiodreyrir
:sang before Delling's doors.
:Strength he sang to the Æsir, and to the Alfar prosperity,
:wisdom to [[List of names of Odin|Hroptatyr]].<ref name=THORPE47>Thorpe (1907:47).</ref>
</blockquote>
In the poem ''[[Fjölsvinnsmál]]'', [[Svipdagr]] asks "What one of the gods has made so great the hall I behold within?" [[Fjölsviðr]] responds with a list of names, including ''Dellingr''.<ref name=THORPE100>Thorpe (1907:100).</ref> In a stanza of the poem ''[[Hrafnagaldr Óðins]]'', the appearance of Dagr, horse, and chariot are described, and Dagr himself is referred to as "the son of Delling."<ref name=THORPE31-32>Thorpe (1866:31–32).</ref>