Glenr

"Shine." According to Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning, the husband of Sól, the daughter of Mundilfari, before she was placed in the sky. Snorri quotes the following verse by the eleventh-century Icelandic poet Skúli Þórsteinsson in Skáldskaparmál:

Glenr's god-blithe Bed-Mate wadeth

Into the Goddess's mansion

With rays; then the good light cometh

Of gray-sarked Máni downward.

A kenning for the sun is Wife of Glenr.

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