Editing Máni (section)

==Theories==
[[File:Man-in-the-Moon-from-L-Richter.jpg|thumb|A 19th century depiction of ''The Man in the Moon'' from folklore in areas of Germanic Europe]]
Kennings in the [[skald]]ic corpus for female [[Jötunn|jötnar]] have been identified (such as "desired woman of Máni" used by the 10th century skald [[Guthormr sindri]]) as pointing to a potential marriage or sexual union between Máni and a female [[jötunn]]. John Lindow states that if a story about Máni having such a relationship with a female jötunn existed, then "it has left no other trace in the extant mythology.<ref name=LINDOW222-223>Lindow (2001:222—223).</ref> [[Rudolf Simek]] states that in two skaldic kennings "Máni is apparently a gigantic being in a myth of which we otherwise know nothing".<ref name=SIMEK201-202>Simek (2007:201—202).</ref>

John Lindow theorizes on Máni's fate at Ragnarök in that "as part of the creation of the [[æsir]], that is, the cosmos, Máni must be destroyed at Ragnarök, but this is not explicitly stated, except perhaps [[Prose Edda|by Snorri]], who tells about [[Mánagarmr|Mánagarm]], who will swallow a heavenly body that may be the moon".<ref name=LINDOW222-223/>

Rudolf Simek connects the account of Máni, and [[Hjúki and Bil]] (featuring, as Simek states, "a man with a pole and a woman with a bushel") found in chapter 11 of ''Gylfaginning'' with modern accounts of the [[Man in the Moon]] found in modern folklore in [[Scandinavia]], [[England]], and [[North Germany]]. Simek additionally points out that a stanza appearing early in the poem ''[[Völuspá]]'' states that the Æsir had set up the Moon "in order to be able to reckon the year", which Simek connects with Germanic computation of time having been directed towards the Moon rather than the Sun, and that shorter amounts of time were given in nights rather than days.<ref name=SIMEK201-202/>