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Norse Mythology By: Olivia Walker (Characters (Odin (Has many names: all…
Norse Mythology By: Olivia Walker
End of Days
The end will start in the winter and there will be no warmth for a long time. people will be hungry and they will be cold. There will be no spring. all of the year will just be winter.
Fenris Wolf: the great would
wherever he walks destruction follows. people will begin fighting each other. “the age of cruel winds”
the world burns and after the end of the world the men and women will come out of the mighty ash tree.
the sun in the sky will vanish and the moon will also be gone.
Cliffs will crumble into the sea and Loki will create a ship and steer it but then get in a fight and battle with Heimdall and Odin will rise at the head of their company
there will be a a flood and Jorgmungundr (the Midgard Serpant) will writhe in fury and the venom of his fangs will spill into the water. this will kill everything that breaths and there will be no more life in the ocean
Creation
Yggdrasil (mighty ash tree)
The largest tree of all and grows in between the 9 worlds and connects them all
Has very deep roots and it is fed by three wells.
The deepest root goes into the underworld and it goes into the center of the world
Hvergelmir : it goes into the dark world and is the spring. It is so loud . There is a dragon that is gnawing on root from below the waters
2nd root: goes to the realm of the frost giants
belongs to Mimir
The last root: goes to the home of the gods (Asgard)
Each day the gods hold their council here and it is also where the y will gather before the world ends
It is called the Well of Urd
The tree that Odin hung himself from as a sacrifice
Audhumla (giant cow) and Ymir (giant) were the first living things
Odin and his brother killed Ymir and created the nine worlds out of the giant's flesh
Stories
Mimir's Head and Odin's Eye
Odin wants a sip from Mimir's well and will not stop asking so Mimir cuts out one of his eyes and it goes in the well
Mimir got his head cut of and it was sent to Odin. Odin rubbed it with herbs to prevent it from rotting and he did not want Mimir's knowledge to be lost
Odin took the head back to the well and placed it beneath the tree beside his eye
Loki cut of Sif's hair and Thor was SUPER mad
threatens Loki and this is how Thor gets his hammer
Freya's Unusual Wedding
The Lord of Orges steals the hammer of Thor and to get it back he wants to marry Freya
Orges name is Thrym
Heimdall is a god that can sometimes see things in the future but he is "the god of far-seeing"
Wants to dress Thor as a bride and make him look like a woman and Thor hated the idea but everyone thought it was a wonderful idea.
The gods' plan worked and when they got Thor's hammer back and Thor killed Thrym and a bunch of other giants/orges
Thor protected the people from giants and trolls because he was the strongest of all
Stranger comes to Asgard and can build a huge wall but wants 3 things in return: Freya, the moon and the sun
Loki thinks that the task is impossible to do in 1 season so he agrees to do it . When the stranger is almost done with the huge wall and the gods realize that it is going to be done in time, Loki sabotages it and the stranger does not get it done in time. The strangers furious and returns to his real form which is a giant.
Thor's Journey the the Land of the Giants
Thailfi could outrun anything and Roska was his sister. They lived on a farm with their mother and their father (Egil) . The family kept to themselves and usually did not get into trouble.
One day Thor and Loki were passing by and needed a place to stay for the night and eat.When the family said they did not have any food for them, Thor took two goats, killed it and then cooked it for everyone to eat.
Loki told the young boy that the bone marrow of the goat would be the greatest thing he ever could eat. So when everyone left, the boy took and ate the bone marrow. The next morning Thor took his hammer and made the goats come back to life, but one had a limp and was in pain because he had no bone marrow.
Thor then made a splint for the goats leg. Thor was betrayed but the young boy did not know what he had done. When he had said he was the one to break the goat leg and took the boy to the land of the giants
Characters
Loki
Father of monsters, author of woes, sly god.
Walks in the sky with shoes that fly and he can transfer into different shapes so that he can look like other people or even change into animals
A giant
Thor
Weapon is a huge hammer
Odin's son
Huge and the strongest of the gods. And wears gloves to have better grip of the huge hammer and is the defender of Asgard and Midgard
Wife is Sif and he loved her for her. She had blue eyes and pale skin and long hair
Odin
He travels the world in disguise as a normal person to see how normal people view the world. (tall man that is wearing a cloak and hat)
Failing in the war = Odin has betrayed you.
He has birds that travel the world and come back with more knowledge for Odin.
Has many names: all-father, lord of the slain and the gallows god
Is called the all-father because he was the father of the gods and because he breathed the breath of life in our ancestors. He is also father of all mortals
They also called him Blindr (the blind god), Hoarr (the one eyed), and Baleyg (the flaming eyed one)
Sleipnir: Horse given by Loki and is the fastest (can outrun the wind) and strongest horse ever
Norse People
The gods of Asgard came from Germany and eventually started to spread into Scandinavia when they dominated the Vikings. Then they voyaged into Scotland, Ireland, and north England.
Did not particularly like their gods or even trust them, but respected and was fearful of the gods
The norns
3 sisters, maidens, they tend the well and make sure the roots of the tree are covered and cared
Decide your life: there are other norns (giant norns, elf norns, dwarf, Vanir, good, and bad norns) They "shape your fate"
Mimir
the guardian of memory
nobody drank form the well except Mimir himself
Odin wants to drink fro the well
Mimir ends up cutting out Odin's eyes and it goes into his well and the eye is still in the well
Brokk and Eitri --> Elves
Wanted Loki's head in exchange for the hair of Sif
Therefore, Loki turns into a fly and starts bitting the elves... He bit his eyelids so Brokk was blinded by the blood
Structure of the Universe
Yssdrasil
Helheim- the dishonorable dead go when they die
Muspell- The world of flame where the god, Surtr, waits
Vanaheim- the place where the Vanir gods live
Alfheim- where the light of elves live
Nidavellir- the place under the mountains where the dark elves and dwarfs live
There are three roots of the tree: Asgard, Jotunheim, and Niflheim
Asgard: the last root of the tree and is the place where Urd's Well is. It is the place where the Aesir gods live and most of the gods hold their counsel there . The norns are three sisters, who tend Urd's Well.
Jotunheim: The Well of Mimir is in this world and it is the place where the frost giants live.
Niflheim: The dragon, Nidhogg, lives in the waters of Hvergelmir and gnaws on the root from below . A squirrel named Rataosk live in the actual branches of Yggdrasil and sends messages to Nidhogg.
This is a huge ash tree that grows between all of the nine worlds and connects all of them. It is also called "the world tree" and the biggest tree of them all. The top of the branches are the sky.