11/8/2023 0 Comments Nine worlds yggdrasil![]() The air is filled with the scent of rich, warm earth. This is a very old, old tribe of gods, who are masters of sorcery and magick! Nobody knows exactly where Vanaheim is or how it looks the Vanir hide it to protect it, so we’re very, very lucky to see this sight indeed! Freya must have had a good word for us today! Here we see rolling fields and forests and rivers teeming with life – beautiful purple mountains rise in the distance. This is the home of the Vanir tribe of gods. In Jotunheim, we’ll find the God Mimir and the Well of Wisdom he looks over, a well whose waters of knowledge even Odin desires – but that’s a story for another day! Let’s move on! Jotunheim is a land of massive mountains and huge rivers, here as we follow the root of Yggdrasil down past Midgard through the void. The Gods have even had children with the gods, and from Jotunheim came the god Loki, who became the sworn brother of Odin himself and accepted by the Aesir. ![]() Here the giants can be peaceful and friends of the gods, and or they can be their enemies. The giants here are neither frost nor fire giants, like in Niflheim or Muspelheim, but a power unto themselves. But we know Midgard, don’t we! Let’s move on! But he grew SO huge, he ringed the whole world, biting his own tail. Their serpent child grew huge – so huge he terrified the Aesir, who then cast him into the space surrounding Midgard. All around Midgard is a huge, impassable space – in this space dwells Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent, a child of the God Loki and Giantess Angrboda. Between our world and Asgard stretches the Rainbow Bridge, the Bifrost. ![]() Midgard was created by Odin and his brothers, Vili and Ve from the body of a Giant named Ymir, and then they created us! They created us from an ash tree and an elm tree they found. You and I, we have had a glimpse of something reserved for the Gods and a chosen, rare few, so onward we must move! Either is an incredible mark of honor it is not easy to be chosen to live here among the gods! One of them, called Surtr, will one day attack and destroy Asgard….Īh! Safe – at least, for now! Here in Asgard, we walk with the Gods themselves! Here Odin, All-Father, himself dwells with his wife Frigga just past that wall and those gates there, you’ll see their hall, Valhalla! When a warrior dies who has fought to his last breath, exhausting all his strength and fighting harder than anyone could imagine, he is either chosen to go here to Valhalla with Odin or dwell with Freya in her hall, Folkvangr. Here the air is filled with ash and soot be careful not to breathe any in! It’s very, very hot here, as you can imagine it feels like the sun itself! You wouldn’t think anything could live in such heat, but here Giants dwell too: massive forms of lava and fire walk over the burning rock of the world. In Niflheim, the huge frost Giants roam – huge beings of ice and snow whose heads touch the sky! Let’s go, before they find us!Īnother of the original worlds, Muspelheim is a world all of fire and lava. As the world tree Yggdrasil grew, it stretched its roots down into this river for its water. This water eventually reaches towards the Ginungagap and the fire world, Muspelheim, where it melts. In Niflheim is the well from which all the rivers flow, called Hvergelmir, and it is so cold the river has frozen into waves. Between the two worlds stretched the Ginungagap, the void. Niflheim and Muspelhiem were the first worlds, and were there before Odin created the others. If you look around, you’ll see all the colors that ice can be when old and deep: It is every shade of blue, green, gray and white imaginable. Here, the air is filled with cold mists and even colder fog, the land itself covered deep in ice. Now the gods can go between realms, so let’s ask them to help us and see if they’ll let us take a trip through the nine worlds and explore! Each world is home to a different sort of being, like the Gods and the Giants and us. ![]() ![]() He created seven of them, forming a giant tree called Yggdrasil, which holds these worlds in its branches and roots with the two worlds which were there before he created them. When Odin and his brothers killed the Giant Ymir and created more worlds, he didn’t just create the world we live on, called Midgard. Listen, children, and listen well For I’ve a tale that I would tell A tale of the worlds and of a tree, That holds the nine worlds, even you and me! In its branches, each world this tree does hold- This special tree, one most ancient and old So listen now, and listen well. As presented by Dael on Hrafnarfjall Hearthside. ![]()
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