Sol (Latin).

The sun.

“And when Dan Sol to slope his wheels began.”

Thomson: Castle of Indolence, canto i.

Sol. The term given by the ancient alchemists to gold. Silver was luna.

Sol in the Edda was the daughter of Mundilfori, and sister of Maʹni. She was so beautiful that at death she was placed in heaven to drive the sun-chariot. Two horses were yoked to it, named Arvakur and Alsvith (watchful and rapid). (Scandinavian mythology.) (See Mani.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Sol (Latin).

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