In Norse mythology’s Ragnarok, the sun Sól gives birth to a daughter before the wolf catches her.
This detail appears in Vafþrúðnismál, a wisdom poem preserved in the Poetic Edda. The god Odin, disguised as Gangradr, asks the giant Vafþrúðnir what will happen after the sun is taken by the wolf. The giant answers that Sól will bear a daughter before she is caught, and that daughter will follow her mother’s path after the gods have died.
The episode explains how daylight continues after the catastrophe. It is distinct from the separate tradition in which a wolf swallows the moon. Norse sources do not provide a personal name for Sól’s daughter, so “a daughter” is the specific answer supported by the surviving text.
Sól is the personified sun, while Máni is the personified moon. Both are pursued through the sky by wolves, but the myths assign different outcomes to them during Ragnarok.