FACTS ABOUT NORSE GODS

THE FIRST GODS WERE THE THREE BROTHERS ODIN, VILI,

AND VE, WHO FOUGHT A WAR AGAINST A GIANT NAMED

YMIR AND HIS SONS. THE GODS WON AND KILLED YMIR,

WITH WHOSE BODY THEY CREATED OUR WORLD. HIS

FLESH WAS USED FOR THE GROUND, HIS BONES WERE

MADE INTO MOUNTAINS, HIS BLOOD INTO THE OCEANS,

THE DOME OF HIS SKULL INTO THE SKY, AND HIS

BRAIN BECAME CLOUDS.

THE NORSE GODS USED TO BELONG TO TWO SEPARATE

PANTHEONS: THE AESIR AND THE VANIR. AFTER THE

AESIR-VANIR WAR, THEY BECAME ONE UNIFIED PANTHEON.

THE VANIR GODS WERE AN OLD BRANCH OF GODS WHO

WERE KNOWN FOR BEING MASTERS OF SORCERY AND MAGIC.

THEY WERE ALSO WIDELY RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR TALENT

TO PREDICT THE FUTURE.

THE AESIR WERE THE MALE GODS OF NORSE MYTH AND

THEY LIVED IN ASGARD WITH THE FEMALE GODDESSES,

THE ASYNJUR.

ONE OF ASGARD’S MOST WELL-KNOWN LOCATIONS IS

VALHÖLL (VALHALLA), IN WHICH ODIN RULES.

THE NORSE PANTHEON IS A COLOURFUL MIX OF GODS AND

GODDESSES THAT IS HEAVILY INSPIRED BY GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

JUST AS IN GREEK MYTH, MANY OF THE GODS AND

GODDESSES IN NORSE MYTHOLOGY WERE RELATED

TO ONE ANOTHER.

ODIN FORMED THE FIRST HUMANS, ASH AND EMBLA,

OUT OF WOOD.

UNLIKE EGYPTIAN AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY, BOTH OF WHICH

HAVE MALE RULERS OF THE UNDERWORLD, THE NORSE

UNDERWORLD IS RULED BY THE GODDESS HEL.

VINGOLF IS THE NAME OF THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSE THE

GODS BUILT FOR THE ASYNJUR, THE GODDESSES

IN ASGARD.