The Vikings, pt. 1 -- In the Norsemen's World
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Creation Mythology
From Emir's skull they made the sky, which they suspended above the earth. They took sparks of fire from Musbell, and scattered them within this dome to give rise to the stars. Finally, they took two tree trunks that washed up on the seashore in this new earth, and they animated them into the first man and woman called Ask and Enbla. And so, according to this creation myth, humans themselves were made from trees,. The gods created a realm that had been created through violence, but that was specially guarded from these hostile and chaotic forces.
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