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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter N

Nótt

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Personification of Night, mother of Dagr, who rides across the sky on a black horse

Detailed Definition
Nótt is the Norse embodiment of night, daughter of a jötunn, who rides the horse Hrímfaxi across the heavens. She is mother of Dagr (Day) by Dellingr. Described in the Vafþrúðnismál and Grímnismál, she structures cosmic time. Poets use Nótt to symbolize mystery, rest, and the cyclical nature of existence—her dark veil offering both refuge and foreboding.
Example
Example in poetry:
Nótt, personified Night, is described in Vafþrúðnismál: “Nótt bore Dagr with Dellingr”; Snorri recounts in Gylfaginning that she rides Hrímfaxi; Poets use “Nótt’s cloak” to describe darkness or stars; In Hávamál, night brings both danger and rest; Her marriages to Naglfari, Annar, and Dellingr produce key figures; Nótt embodies the cyclical, generative power of darkness.
Additional Notes
Nótt ("Night") is the personified goddess of night, daughter of the giant Nörfi, who rides the horse Hrímfaxi across the sky, as detailed in Vafþrúðnismál and Gylfaginning. She is married successively to Naglfari, Annar, and Dellingr, bearing key figures like Jörð and Dagr. Students should see Nótt as central to Norse temporal cosmology—her journey structures the day/night cycle. Her marriages reflect mythic attempts to explain genealogical links between natural phenomena. In poetry, "Nótt’s cloak" is a kenning for darkness or the starry sky. Nótt’s role is passive yet generative, illustrating how Norse myth personifies time as a maternal, cyclical force rather than a linear progression.
Also Known As
Night Nótt the Cloaked Hrímfaxi’s Rider Mother of Day Nightingale Nat
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