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has gloss | eng: In Norse mythology, Hjúki (Old Norse, possibly meaning "the one returning to health" ) and Bil (Old Norse, possibly meaning "moment" ) are a brother and sister pair of children who follow the personified moon, Máni, across the heavens. Both Hjúki and Bil are solely attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. Scholarly theories that surround the two concern their nature, their role as potential personifications of the craters on the moon or its phases, and speculate about a relation between the tale of the two and the English nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" and later folklore in Germanic Europe. |
lexicalization | eng: Hjuki and Bil |
lexicalization | eng: Hjúki and Bil |
instance of | (noun) a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen Norse deity |
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German | |
has gloss | deu: Bil war in der nordischen Mythologie Tochter des Wildfinnr und Schwester des Hiuki. |
lexicalization | deu: Bil |
French | |
has gloss | fra: Bil et Hjúki sont les deux enfants qui suivent la Lune, Máni, dans la mythologie nordique. |
lexicalization | fra: Bil et Hjúki |
Dutch | |
has gloss | nld: Bil is is in de Noordse mythologie de dochter van Vidfinn en zuster van Hjúki. Volgens de Gylfaginning werden ze van de aarde naar de maan gebracht toen ze water gingen halen met de emmer Saegr en de paal Simul in de bron Byrgir. Nu volgen ze de maan op zijn nachtelijke reis. |
lexicalization | nld: Bil |
Russian | |
has gloss | rus: Биль — богиня скандинавского эпоса, воплощение времени. |
lexicalization | rus: Биль |
Swedish | |
lexicalization | swe: Bil |
Chinese | |
lexicalization | zho: 維茲芬、碧爾和修奇 |
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media:img | Crescent Moon.JPG |
media:img | Jack and Jill 1 - WW Denslow - Project Gutenberg etext 18546.jpg |
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