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Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that the existence of nine worlds around Yggdrasil is mentioned more than once in Old Norse sources, but the identity of the worlds is never stated outright, though it can be deduced from various sources. Davidson comments that "no doubt the identity of the nine varied from time to time as the emphasis changed or ...
Like other aspects of Norse mythology, these concepts are primarily recorded from earlier oral sources in the Poetic Edda, a collection of poems compiled in the 13th century, and the Prose Edda, authored by Icelander Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Together these sources depict an image of Nine Worlds around a cosmic tree, Yggdrasil.
The cosmos in Norse mythology consists of Nine Worlds that flank a central sacred tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of a creation myth are recounted, where the world is created from the flesh of the primordial being Ymir, and the first two humans are Ask and Embla.
The nine sorceresses or nine sisters (Welsh: naw chwaer) are a recurring element in Arthurian legend in variants of the popular nine maidens theme from world mythologies. . Their most important appearances are in Geoffrey of Monmouth's introduction of Avalon and the character that would later become Morgan le Fay, and as the central motif of Peredur's story in the Peredur son of Efrawg part of ...
Name Meaning Notes Blóðughadda "Bloody-hair" [1] According to scholar John Lindow this name "[refers] to reddish foam atop a wave". [1] Scholar Rudolf Simek says that "the name does not appear to be too appropriate for a wave, but perhaps it was supposed to convey the wispy, thread-like appearance of the water streaming from the crest of the wave."
In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world. Their names are given as Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór. An ...
The Norns (Old Norse: norn, plural: nornir) are deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies. [ 1 ] In the Völuspá , the three primary Norns Urðr (Wyrd), Verðandi , and Skuld draw water from Urðarbrunnr to nourish Yggdrasill , the tree at the center of the cosmos , and prevent it from rot. [ 2 ]
Adils; Alaric and Eric; Arngrim; Ask and Embla; Aun; Berserkers; Bödvar Bjarki; Dag the Wise; Domalde; Domar; Dyggve; Egil One-Hand; Fafnir; Fjölnir; Gudrun; Harald ...