MYTHOLOGY

Ymir and the creation

          Before a time of men, there was cold barren land. All of it was ruled by the frost giants or jotuun. The leader of the frost giants was a jotuun named Ymir. He killed all who stood in his away. All that was left for him to seize was asgard. Odin the Allfather, said he would slay every frost giant he could find until he died. So in honor he gathered an army of aesir and fought the horde of ice demons. 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.

 

 

They threw the brain up in the air and it became the clouds. The skull became the sky. It was the lid that covered the new world. The brothers grabbed some of the sparks shooting out from Muspelheim, the land of fire. They threw the sparks up toward the inside of the skull. These sparks gleamed at night and was what we call the stars. On the plains of Idavoll, they built Asgard, which would be the home of the gods. Very far away from Asgard, were the Jotuns allowed to live. However worms kept crawling out of Ymir's body. Those worms were dwarves. The brothers told four of the dwarfs to hold up the sky. They did not want to risk the sky falling down. The names of the four dwarfs is North "Nordi" West "Vestri", South "Sundri", and East "Austri", and was sent out in each direction of the world. The other dwarfs made their homes in rocks and caves under the ground, which is called Nidavellir. The dwarfs became experts in craftsmanship, and have created some of the most powerful weapons, like Mjölnir, Thor's hammer. Also upon ymir's body was fleas. Those grew into us, humans.