At first, there was Múspellsheimr, the realm of fire, and Niflheimr, misty, cold, and dark. In the middle was, a void, a gap, an abyss called Ginnungagap. In Niflheimr, Élivágar comes from Hvergelmir, flows to the Ginnungagap, and freezes, but when the fire of Múspellsheimr met the ice, it melted and water dripped into the Ginnungagap. Those drops of water slowly created Ymir, the first living being and the ancestor of all the giants, Jøtunns. In tandem, the cow Auðumbla came to life and fed Ymir with its milk. As feeding Ymir, Auðumbla licked the ice and revealed the third living being, Búri. Then life in the Norse cosmos started.
Ymir sweated in his sleep; from his armpits, he bred two children, and his two legs created other beings. Thus, the generation of Jøtunns began. Búri, with one of the unknown female children of Ymir, bred Burr. Bestla, the daughter of BÞlþorn, who was the son of Ymir, bred 3 children with Burr. These children were Vili, Vé, and the chief god Óðinn.
In the world of emptiness, Óðinn and his two brothers wanted to bring it to life, and killed Ymir and tore apart his body to create a new world. His blood became oceans. They used his flesh for the earth, bones for the mountains, teeth for the boulders, brain for the clouds, eyelashes for the fence of Miðgarðr, and the skull to hold up the sky, which was held by four dwarfs, Norðri, Vestri, Suðri, Austri “North, West, South, and East.”
Seeing the world still empty, the unknown Lóðurr, Hønir, and the chief god Óðinn found Askr and Embla, the first man and the first woman. The breath Óðinn gave, the spirit Hønir gave and the flesh Lóðurr gave. Thereby, the first humans came to life.
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20 Ağustos 2025
