 Scholars have proposed that Dellingr is the personified dawn and his name may appear both in an English surname and place name.Dellingr is referenced in the "Poetic Edda" poems "Vafþrúðnismál" and "Hávamál".In stanza 24 of "Vafþrúðnismá", the god Odin (disguised as "Gagnráðr") asks the jötunn Vafþrúðnir from where the day comes, and the night and its tides.