Jonathan bell
2/27/14
Norse creation myth In the beginning nothing existed except the void, Ginnungagap. Then there was to the north a great place of eternal mist, darkness and cold, called Nifheim. Out of the icy land there flowed a spring that fed twelve other streams. South of the land of cold, there was the land of eternal fire, Muspellsheim. The land of flames was as everlasting as the land of ice and as the flames licked the icy world, some of the ice melted and formed the first frost giant Ymir, and a great cow named Audumla whose milk fed Ymir. As Ymir was sleeping, the sweat of his armpit turned into two other frost giants, and from where his legs crossed there was born another son, a giant with nine heads. These frost giants where all evil and constantly fought each other. Meanwhile as the cow …show more content…
Other gods appear, though no one knows if they are children of the frost giants and the gods, or if they simply emerged from the ice like Buri, or if they were created from Ymir’s body like the dwarves. While wandering the new world, Odin and his two brothers found two trees uprooted and decided to make a race out of them. Odin gave them a human body, Villi gave them warmth, and Ve gave them the ability to move. Their names where Ask and Embla and went on to from the human race. One of the frost giants had a daughter called Night and her children’s names were Aud, Earth, and Day. Odin took night and day and gave them flying chariots to run across the sky, with their horses named Skinfaxi and Hirmfaxi. One of the fathers of the race of mankind was so proud of his two children that he named them moon and sun. Odin was somehow displeased with this and sent them up to guide night and day forever. Moon is first, guiding night and deciding whether or not she will wax or wane. The trip is not as boring as one my think, because they are eternally being chased by two giant wolves named Skoll and Hati. In Armageddon, or the
2/27/14
Norse creation myth In the beginning nothing existed except the void, Ginnungagap. Then there was to the north a great place of eternal mist, darkness and cold, called Nifheim. Out of the icy land there flowed a spring that fed twelve other streams. South of the land of cold, there was the land of eternal fire, Muspellsheim. The land of flames was as everlasting as the land of ice and as the flames licked the icy world, some of the ice melted and formed the first frost giant Ymir, and a great cow named Audumla whose milk fed Ymir. As Ymir was sleeping, the sweat of his armpit turned into two other frost giants, and from where his legs crossed there was born another son, a giant with nine heads. These frost giants where all evil and constantly fought each other. Meanwhile as the cow …show more content…
Other gods appear, though no one knows if they are children of the frost giants and the gods, or if they simply emerged from the ice like Buri, or if they were created from Ymir’s body like the dwarves. While wandering the new world, Odin and his two brothers found two trees uprooted and decided to make a race out of them. Odin gave them a human body, Villi gave them warmth, and Ve gave them the ability to move. Their names where Ask and Embla and went on to from the human race. One of the frost giants had a daughter called Night and her children’s names were Aud, Earth, and Day. Odin took night and day and gave them flying chariots to run across the sky, with their horses named Skinfaxi and Hirmfaxi. One of the fathers of the race of mankind was so proud of his two children that he named them moon and sun. Odin was somehow displeased with this and sent them up to guide night and day forever. Moon is first, guiding night and deciding whether or not she will wax or wane. The trip is not as boring as one my think, because they are eternally being chased by two giant wolves named Skoll and Hati. In Armageddon, or the