Editing Meili (section)

==Reception==
The name Meili is of unknown etymology and meaning. [[Rudolf Simek]] suggested ''der Liebe'', 'the dear one'.<ref name=SIMEK210>Simek (2006:272).</ref><ref>Mistranslated "the lovely one" in Angela Hall's 2007 translation, ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology'', [[Boydell & Brewer|D.S. Brewer]], {{ISBN|0-85991-513-1}}, p.&nbsp;210. <!-- Hall also omits Simek's "vielleicht", and the Haustlǫng citation. --></ref>

Scholars have generally accepted that Meili, like Thor, is a son of Odin. Some 19th-century scholars proposed that he should also be understood as having the same mother as Thor, [[Jörð]], a goddess and the personified Earth.<ref name="JORDMOTHER">Examples include Pierer (1844:204), Barth (1846:396), and Uhland (1868:18).</ref> Also during the 19th century, [[Viktor Rydberg]] theorized that [[Baldr]] and Meili are one and the same.<ref name="RYDBERG191">Rydberg (2003:191).</ref>