The Nine Realms - Norse Mythology

Story

Before the dawn of time and before the world was created, there was a place called Nilfheim. Niflheim was the darkest and coldest region, and consisted of ice, frost and fog. Niflheim was and still is, in the northern region of Ginunngagap.

To the south of Ginunngagap there is a place called Muspelheim, it is the land of fire. In Muspelheim there is a giant named Surt, he is the ruler of the land. Muspelheim is the home of the fire demons and fire giants.

Between Niflheim and Muspelheim there was a great void, this vast emptiness was called Ginnungagap. It is said that in Nilfheim at a place called Hvergelmir, is where all the cold rivers are from, and it is said to be the source of the eleven rivers. Hvergelmir was the origin of all existence and the place where every living will go back. Elivagar “ice waves” are the rivers which existed in Niflheim at the beginning of the world. They were the streams floating out of Hvergelmir. The water from Elivagar was flowing down the mountains to the plains of Ginnungagap, where it solidified to frost and ice, which gradually formed a very dense layer. That is the reason, why there is very cold in the northern plains.
From the south where Muspelheim is, came lava and sparks into the great void Ginnungagap. In the middle of Ginnungagap the air from Niflheim and Muspelheim met, the fire melted the ice and it began to drip, and there grew therefrom a humanoid creature. It was a Jotun who we today call Ymir. While Ymir slept, and the sweat under his arms grew two more giants, one male and one female, and one of his legs paired with the other to create a third, a son Thrudgelmir “Strength Yeller” These were the first of the family of frost giants also called jotuns. They were breastfed by the cow giant Audhumla who, like Ymir, was created from the melting ice in Ginnungagap.

Audhumla herself fed on a block of salty ice, and while she were liking on the rock something strange happened. On the first day some human hair emerged from the rock. The second day Audhumla licked the rock; a head grew from the stone. At last on the third day the rest of the body came out. The man who had grown out of the salty rock was Buri, the first of the gods. Buri was a giant, big and handsome.

He had a son called Borr, and he got married to Bestla, a Jotun woman. Borr and Bestla had three sons, Odin, Vili and Ve.

Odin and his two brothers was bothered by the fact that the Jotuns outnumbered the Aesir. The giant troll was constantly conceiving new Jotuns. The only solution they could see was to kill Ymir. The three brothers waited until Ymir was asleep before they assaulted him. A horrifying battle began. Using all their strength they managed to kill Ymir. The blood spouted out with furious force in every direction. Most of the Jotuns drowned in the flood of blood. Only two Jotuns survived, Bergelmir and his wife. The couple found asylum in the land of mist, and saved their lives. All future Jotuns descended from this couple.

The World was Created from the remains of the giant Ymir. The three brothers dragged the dead body of Ymir towards the center of Ginnungagap. This is the place where they created the world from the remains of Ymir.

The blood was transformed into oceans and water.

The flesh became the land.

The bones became the mountains.

The teeth made into rocks.

The hair became the grass and trees.

The eyelashes became Midgard.

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