Prose Edda — Old Norse facing a living language
Þá mælti Gangleri: "Hversu stýrir hann gang sólar eða tungls?" Hárr segir: "Sá maðr er nefndr Mundilfari, er átti tvau börn. Þau váru svá fögr ok fríð, at hann kallaði son sinn Mána, en dóttur sína Sól ok gifti hana þeim manni, er Glenr hét.
Then Gangleri asked: "How does he steer the course of the sun and the moon?" High said: "A man named Mundilfari had two children, so fair and lovely that he named his son Moon and his daughter Sun, and married her to a man called Glen.
En goðin reiddust þessu ofdrambi ok tóku þau systkin ok settu upp á himin, létu Sól keyra þá hesta, er drógu kerru sólarinnar, þeirar er goðin höfðu skapat til at lýsa heimana af þeiri síu, er flaug ór Múspellsheimi. Þeir hestar heita svá, Árvakr ok Alsviðr, en undir bógum hestanna settu goðin tvá vindbelgi at kæla þá, en í sumum fræðum er þat kallat ísarnkol.
The gods were angered at this arrogance, and took the two of them, brother and sister, and set them up in the sky. They had Sun drive the horses that pulled the sun's cart — the one the gods had made to light the worlds from the ember that flew out of Muspell. Those horses are called Early-Waker and All-Strong, and under their shoulders the gods placed two bellows to cool them — in some old lore that's called 'iron-cold.' Moon steers the moon's course and governs its waxing and waning.
Máni stýrir göngu tungls ok ræðr nýjum ok niðum. Hann tók tvau börn af jörðunni, er svá heita, Bil ok Hjúki, er þau gengu frá brunni þeim er, Byrgir heitir, ok báru á öxlum sér sá, er heitir Sægr, en stöngin Simul. Viðfinnr er nefndr faðir þeira. Þessi börn fylgja Mána, svá sem sjá má af jörðu."
He took two children from the earth, named Bil and Hjuki, as they were walking away from a well called Byrgir, carrying on their shoulders the pail called Saeg and the pole Simul. Their father is named Vidfinn. These children follow Moon, as can still be seen from the earth."