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This story is based on original Viking Age poems 

The Legend About The Norse Goddess Night

 
 
 
Norse Goddess Nightfabric pattern
 
 

Nótt - Night - Natt

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Long before the world became as it is today, there was no Day and no Night. Time floated by in one complete entity, undivided by the shiftings of light. You may have taken Night for granted, and assumed it to be merely another natural wonder, but she is a celestial being, whose purpose is to measure time for humankind and indeed all other creatures in the nine realms of Norse cosmology.

But let’s start at the beginning. Night was born the only daughter of one of the first giants. She was black and dark, and her hair was the colour of ravens. Her first marriage produced a son, as dark and mysterious as his mother. His name was Auðr, meaning ‘prosperity’. Night married again, this time giving birth to a daughter whose name was Jörð, meaning ‘earth’. Finally, in her third marriage, Night had another child – Dagr, Day, a son so fair and bright that the goddesses and gods agreed to divide what we now know as “time” between Night and her son. Both were given a horse and carriage, Night set out first, travelling at high speed. At the break of day, you may find the drops of foam from her horse Hrimfaxi’s muzzle in the form of morning dew in the grass.

Also, in order for all creatures to reckon the year the goddesses and gods held council and assigned Sól, ‘Sun’, and her brother Máni, ‘Moon’ to join Night and Day in their travels over the skies. As long as they continue to elude the fearful wolves Sköll and Hati, who are always in pursuit hoping to devour Sól and Máni, all realms are safe from the void of nothingness.

Therefore, in this time before remembrance, it was known that Night always comes before Day, and when you begin to feel the dark surround you, remember that she is part of an exquisite collaboration of deities racing through the skies creating something invaluable out of oblivion.


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Founder Åsa Trulsson

Åsa Trulsson
Founder of Soldiser, designer & Norse mythology enthusiast from Skåne, Sweden.


Norse Goddess Night Silk Scarf

This story  is inspired by the poems Alvíssmál, Vafþrúðnismál and Giriminsmál in the Poetic Edda.  The Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson also harmonised various concepts of the legend and formed one of the more famous myths, which can be found in the Prose Edda. According to Snorri, Night was "black and dark", just as her ancestors and her son Day was "light and fair after his father".    

The people of ancient Scandinavia did in fact measure time in number of nights, as the word fortnight still reminds us. Thus, an event would take place in a number of nights time, not in number of days.

They also explained the lunar and solar eclipse with the wolves having finally caught up with Sól and Máni and devoured them. Luckily, as we are aware, the deities always manage to escape, perhaps due to their exceptional horses. Day’s horse is named Skinfaxi, ‘light-horse’ and illuminates the whole sky and earth with its mane, and Sól’s stallions are called Arvakr and Alsviðr, ‘early awake’ and ‘very quick’.


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Inspired by the enchanted ancient sagas, Soldiser creates unique silk accessories and jewelry dedicated to  the Norse legends 


Norse Goddess Night Blue Silk scarf
 
 

Pocket squares

Handcrafted from the finest silk  with a pattern telling an ancient Viking story

 

Precious Jewelry

Inspired by ancient Norse legends, perfectly combining heritage and modernity

 
 
 

Silk Scarves

Designed to celebrate heroines and  legendary women from 1000 years ago