#hatti

In Norse mythology, according to the Prose Edda, a giant once named his children Sun and Moon, because they were as pretty as them. The gods punished that hubris and Sun and Moon (Sól and Máni) have to steer the carriages that pull their namesakes.

Máni has two companions, Bil and Hjúki, two siblings who he picked up when they were fetching water. They still have the pail and the carrying pole with them. Their shadow can be seen on the moon (That´s the craters). The moon is followed by the wolf Hátti who eternally tries to eat it and will eventually succeed at Ragnarök. The runes are two stanzas from Voluspá, where this prophecy is made:

40. In the east sat an aged giantess, in Ironwood, and there she raised Fenrir's brood. Among them is a certain one who bites the moon in a troll's shape.

41. Dead men feed their lives to the wolf, the home of the gods turns red with gore, the sun shines black through the summers, the weather is never cheerful. Have you learned enough yet? (Translation by Jackson Crawford)

In the original Old Norse: 40. Austr sat in aldna í Járnviði ok fæddi þar Fenris kindir; verðr af þeim öllum einna nokkurr tungls tjúgari í trölls hami.

41. Fyllisk fjörvi feigra manna, rýðr ragna sjöt rauðum dreyra; svört verða sólskin um sumur eftir, veðr öll válynd. Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?