As told by your resident Scop,
James Fleming
Ginnunga Gap also called
“Yawning Gap”
Mists from Niflheim and
sparks from
Muspellsheim mixed in
the Gap and formed a
fog, from which
stepped…
Niflheim “the land of
ice and mist”
Muspellsheim “the land of
fire”
Ymir – the father of
the frost giants
Audhumla – the
great cow
The
Frost
Giants
–a
savage
bunch
Buri – first
human-looking
creature.
Buri married a daughter of a frost giant and
bore a son named Bor.
Bor had 3 sons of his own:
Odin (Woden)- - - - - - - - - ->
Vili
Je (Ve)
These were the first of the Aesir or Viking gods.
Ymir
The Flood
Bergamil
The Aesir
Led by
Odin
Nor
The Ginnunga Gap
From his body they fashioned the heavens and the Earth. His flesh become the world.
His skull the sky. Is bones the mountains. His hair the grasses and trees. His brain
Became the clouds. His blood the seas. His eyebrows became a fence around the world.
From his ugly parts, the evil creatures of the world, dwarfs, trolls, fairies, gnomes, and
elves.
Asgard – the
land of the
Aesir.
Niflheimthe land of
the dead.
Midgard – the land
Between Niflheim
And Muspellsheim.
This is the world of for
The humans and all the
other creatures.
Nat and
Hrimfaxi
Dag and
Skinfaxi
Aske, the first man
cut from an ash tree
Embla, the first
woman, cut from an
elm tree
Heimdall,
the
watchman
Yggdrasil, the great Elm tree that
Supports the universe
Jotenheim
Asgard
Midgard
Bifrost, the
Rainbow
bridge
Midgard well
The Three Norns,
wyrd systers, Urth,
Skuld, Verthandi
Asguard
Broken into
Different
Areas.
Gladsheimfor the gods
Vingolf – for
the goddesses
Valhalla- the hall of
the slain heroes.
Odin
Friggathe
mother
of the
gods
Balder – the most loved
Frey-twin male god of the earth
Freya-twin female goddess of love
Hoderthe
blind
son
Tiu-the bravest and god of war
Thor is their greatest son
Thunder-god
He carries 3 treasures:
a. Mjollner the hammer
b. The girdle of strength
c. Iron mittens with which he lifts
mjollner
The End of the Gods, Giants, and the World
Odin seeking a prophecy.
Mimur at Mimur’s Well in Jotenheim
The price of a
drink was Odin’s
right eye.
Odin learns:
The day of Ragna Rok, or the end battle of
good and evil, when the world shall end,
will not begin until the most beloved son of
Odin and Frigga dies.
Loki, not a god,
but a sometimes
friend of the gods.
He is a trickster,
often causing
mischief as well
as solving
problems. He is
Odin’s blood
brother until he
betrays him.
Loki and his
faithful wife,
Sigyn. She
stands by
him even
when he
deserves it
not.
Loki had three monstrous children that the Aesir feared.
Hel, half
woman,
half
corpse,
ruler of
Niflheim
Fenris, the savage wolf.
Midgardsorm, the sea serpent.
Frigga circled the world asking everything to swear an oath
that it would never harm Balder.
To celebrate, a great
feast was held to
celebrate Balder’s
health and safety,
and everyone was
having a marvelous
time, except…….
….Hoder. He wasn’t
having any fun because
he couldn’t see Balder to
throw anything at him.
Not to worry. His good
friend Loki would help.
Balder died instantly,
and went to Niflheim.
Tiu went to
retrieve
him.
Hel would
only give
him up if...
Tiu loses his
hand to Fenris
Loki’s punishment.
Fenris/Odin die.
Thor/Midgardsorm die.
ARF!
Loki/Heimdall die.
Death of Mimur
Tiu is killed by a vicious dog.
The Universe was destroyed. And the only two beings left…..
were a man and a woman, Lif and Lifthrasur, who had slept through the entire
struggle in the forest in a place where the devastation had not reached. They
went on to repopulate the world. We are their descendents.