How you like the Earth? Not bad considering it was made by me and my brothers from the left over bits of a giant is it.
In the beginning and before you humans, there was nothing but a great wasteland of ice and snow, stretching between the Cloud Land of the north and the Land of Fire in the south. Sparks from the Land of Fire melted some of the ice and its drops formed into Ymir, father of the giants.
As he lay sleeping he gave birth to giants from his armpit (yep, his armpit). He was nourished by Audumla, a cow which appeared out of the melting ice, and as Ymir drank the milk from her udders she licked at the ice until it revealed a being named Buri. He had a son named Bor, who married Ymir's daughter Bestla and fathered me and my brothers.
We wanted to create a new World but our father liked things as they were so we killed him as a necessary act for creation built the Cosmos out of his body, using his flesh for the earth and his salty blood for the sea.
We changed his hair into trees and his bones into mountains, and when this work was done we raised his skull on four pillars so that its curved interior might become the sky.
Sparks drifted over the earth from the Land of Fire and we caught some and placed them within the skull of Ymir to become the Sun, the Moon and the stars and planets.
Happy with our work we looked to craete you humans and when we saw two dead trees, we changed them into the first man and the first woman, Ask and Embla.
As I was the Norse God of intelligence, touch and sense i passed them on to the first humans and Odin gave them a soul and life life and then we finally handed them to Vé who finished up with the speech, hearing, and sight.
Of the three of us it was Odin who went on to become the most prominent and inspire the whole Santa Clause thing along the way but Vé abd I would stay at home with his wife, Frigg, and ruled in his stead and we was happy with that.
Saturday, 2 August 2025
Special Guest Blogger: Norse God Vili
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