They took his skull also, and made of it the heaven, and set it up over the earth with four corners and under each corner they set a dwarf: the names of these are East, West, North, and South. Of the blood, which ran and welled forth freely out of his wounds, they made the sea. ‘They took Ymir and bore him into the middle of the Yawning Void, and made of him the earth: of his blood the sea and the waters the land was made of his flesh, and the crags of his bones gravel and stones they fashioned from his teeth and his grinders and from those bones that were broken. His lifeless body became the building material for other realms, which the young gods built in the midst of Ginnungagap: Buri’s children would ultimately go on to slay the cruel Ymir. The melting ice also revealed Audumla, a cow who nursed Ymir and fed on the salty ice.Īudumla’s voracious licking eventually revealed Buri, the progenitor of the Aesir tribe and grandfather of Odin. The vapors coalesced into cruel Ymir, the first of the giants. As time wore on, the two opposing worlds encroached upon one another, until the fires of Muspelheim began to melt Niflheim’s frost. During this embryonic stage, the universe held just two realms: Muspelheim, the primordial realm of heat and flame, and Niflheim, the primordial realm of cold and frost. According to Norse creation myths, the yawning void called Ginnungagap once dominated all creation.
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