Part 1 of Essay
"He made heaven and earth and skies and everything in them." "But his greatest work is that he made man…" (from "Gylfaginning" in Snorra Edda) While this quote exemplifies how people came to be, it is only a simplification of the world’s creation. The start of life on Earth came about in a most complex, and in some res ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... The cow, Audhumla, came about from melting rime and as it licked the salty rime-stones, Buri was "born." Buri begat a son named Bor; with the giantess Bestla as his wife, Bor had three sons: Odin Vili, and Ve. From here, things started taking a different direction. These three sons went off and killed Ymir, and from Ymir’s blood, death came to all but one of the giants. They took Ymir’s body to Ginnungagap, and from Ymir’s blood and body parts, the physical parts of the world came about: seas, lakes, mount ....