Annar

{{Short description|Norse deity}} {{distinguish|Annear|Anar (disambiguation)}} In Norse mythology, according to the ''Gylfaginning'', '''Annar''' (Old Norse '''Annarr''' 'second, another') is the father of Jörð (Mother Earth) by Nótt (the Night).<ref>Harry Eilenstein (2017). ''Die Erdgöttinnen: Die Götter der Germanen''.</ref> The form '''Ónar''' (Old Norse '''Ónarr''' 'gaping') is found as a variant.

'''Annar'''/'''Ónar''' is also the name of a dwarf in the catalogue of dwarfs in the ''Völuspá'' that is repeated in the ''Gylfaginning''.

==Attestations== In the pseudo-historical genealogy of Odin's ancestors in the introduction to Snorri Sturluson's ''Prose Edda'', a certain Athra is said to be he "whom we call Annar". What this refers to is unknown. (See Sceafa for discussion of the section of this genealogy in which Annar appears.)

In the ''Gylfaginning'' Snorri writes of Nótt:<ref>''Gylfaginning'' 10, 36.</ref><ref name=Lindow>Lindow (2001:205).</ref> <blockquote>She was given to the man named Naglfari; their son was Aud. Afterward she was wedded to him that was called Annar; Jörð ['Earth'] was their daughter.</blockquote>

Snorri might have been using a source in which ''annar'' 'second, another' was intended to mean Odin, for he himself had just previously written of Odin: "The earth was his daughter and his wife...".

But in the ''Skáldskaparmál'' Snorri uses the form ''Ónar'' instead, giving "daughter of Ónar" as one of the kennings for Jörð. Snorri also cites from Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld: <blockquote>In council it was determined<br> That the King's friend, wise in counsel,<br> Should wed the Land, sole daughter<br> Of Ónar, greenly wooded.</blockquote>

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