As told by your resident Scop, James Fleming

Niflheim “the land of ice and mist”

Ginnunga Gap also called “Yawning Gap”

Muspellsheim “the land of fire”

Mists from Niflheim and sparks from Muspellsheim mixed in the Gap and formed a fog, from which stepped…

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 AesirLed byOdin

The Flood

Bergamil

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.

Midgard – the land Between NiflheimAnd Muspellsheim.

This is the world of for The humans and all the other creatures.

Asgard – the land of the Aesir.

Niflheim- the land of the dead.

Nat and Hrimfaxi

Dag and Skinfaxi

Aske, the first man cut from an ash tree

Embla, the first woman, cut from an elm tree

Yggdrasil, the great Elm tree thatSupports the universe

Asgard

Midgard

Jotenheim

Bifrost, the Rainbow bridge

Midgard well

The Three Norns, wyrd systers, Urth, Skuld, Verthandi

Heimdall, the watchman

Asguard

Broken into Different Areas.

Gladsheim- for the gods

Vingolf – for the goddesses

Valhalla- the hall of the slain heroes.

Balder – the most loved

Odin

Frigga- the mother of the gods

Frey-twin male god of the earth

Freya-twin female goddess of love

Tiu-the bravest and god of war

Hoder- the blind son

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

Mimur at Mimur’s Well in Jotenheim

Odin seeking a prophecy.

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.

Fenris, the savage wolf. Midgardsorm, the sea

serpent.

Hel, half woman, half corpse, ruler of Niflheim

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.

Death of Mimur

Fenris/Odin die.

Thor/Midgardsorm die.

Loki/Heimdall die.

Tiu is killed by a vicious dog.

ARF!

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.