Máni (
Old Norse/
Icelandic "moon") is the personification of the
moon in
Norse mythology. Máni, personified, is attested in the
Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the
Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by
Snorri Sturluson. Both sources state that he is the brother of the personified sun,
Sól, and the son of
Mundilfari, while the
Prose Edda adds that he is followed by the children
Hjúki and Bil through the heavens. As a
proper noun, Máni appears throughout Old Norse literature. Scholarly theories have been proposed about Máni's potential connection to the
Northern European notion of the
Man in the Moon, and a potentially otherwise unattested story regarding Máni through
skaldic kennings.