Meili, old Norse "the lovely one or mile-stepper, is son of Odin and brother of Thor, in old Germanic folklore...
It is proposed that Meili's mother is Jörð, a goddess and the personified Earth... In the Harbaardzljod from the Poetic Edda, Thor told Harbard (Odin in disguise as a ferryman) that he had brother named Meili.
Thor spake:
"My name indeed shall I tell,
| though in danger I am,
And all my race;
I am Othin's son,
Meili's brother,
and Magni's father."
But, Meili is not mentioned elsewhere despite his apparent importance to Thor!!!
Another theory advocates that Baldr and Meili are one and the same...
Only very little is known about Meili...
His name as mile-stepper, if accurate, could mean that he was a Norse god of travel.
Given the importance of travel in Norse culture, Meili would then have been an important figure in the Norse pantheon, but no first-hand accounts of his status are known to exist, so his rank and function among the Æsir* remains a point of conjecture...
*Æsir: (Aesir are warrior deities of the sky who lived in Asgard**).
** Asgard: The Aesir lived in a heavenly realm ruled by Odin called Asgard. This place, which contained the great hall known as Valhalla, was separated from Jotunheim below, the place of the gods known as the Vanir, by a bridge, Bifrost (perhaps the Milky Way), guarded by Heimdall.
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