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Gylfaginning: Creation And Odin
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"He made heaven and earth and skies and everything in them." "But his
greatest work is that he made man…" (from "Gylfaginning" in Snorra Edda)
While this quote exemplifies how people came to be, it is only a simplification of the world’s creation. The start of life on Earth came about in a most ....
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....irst man, Ask, and from an elm log came the first woman, Embla. From these two people came the rest of mankind that would inhabit the region of the world called Midgard. It is at this point that history begins.
When dealing with creation, it is important to look at the philosophy of it, or cosmology. Even before the creation of the world, opposites were present. An example of this is the northern icy Niflheim versus the southern fiery Muspell. Many things had either a good, or a bad. Asgard.... |
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