Sól, chased by a wolf

In Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Sun is a woman named Sól who drives the Sun's chariot, and a wolf pursues her.

The story

In Brodeur's translation, Mundilfari names his children Sun and Moon, and the gods, offended, set them in the sky. Sun drives the horses Early-Wake and All-Strong, and goes swiftly because the wolf Sköll runs after her; another wolf runs ahead, after the Moon.

Reading it

The myth gives the Sun's steady march across the sky a reason, and a threat. The same text says a wolf will one day swallow the Moon and the Sun will lose her shine, at the end of the world. Eclipses are now predicted centuries ahead (how); the story still says something about how a reliable Sun felt.

Astrology and myth are presented here as symbolic and historical traditions, not as predictions. The sky's positions and times on this site are calculated the same way in every lens.