The Norse Creation Myth: Ymir and the Ginnungagap
The Norse creation myth: from the yawning void of Ginnungagap to the body of the giant Ymir, how Odin and his brothers shape the world and the first humans.
Norse mythology
Norse mythology stories
Norse myths survive mostly in two thirteenth-century Icelandic collections: the Poetic Edda, whose Völuspá tells of the creation and the end of the world, and Snorri Sturluson's Edda, which retells them in prose and sets them in order. They follow the world's birth from the body of the giant Ymir, the death of Baldr struck by a sprig of mistletoe, the theft of Thor's hammer, won back by the god disguised as a bride, and Ragnarök, which sweeps the gods away. Each story separates what the Eddic poems say from what Snorri adds or smooths over.
Creation myths
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