According to the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá and the Prose Edda, the first human couple consisted of driftwood found by a trio of gods and imbued with life in the form of three gifts (Ask and Embla). After the cataclysm of Ragnarok, this process is mirrored in the survival of two humans from a wood. These two humankind were to repopulate the new, green earth. Traces and influences of Norse paganism can still be found in the culture and traditions of the modern Nordic countries; Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Åland Islands, and Greenland, along with other countries such as Germany, England, Canada and some parts of British North America and New Spain which were settled by migrants from Nordic nations.
Norse mythology
Norse mythology