[Let's fast forward to when they've got someplace to chill and talk old myths!]
Alright.... Norse Mythology envisioned their cosmology as nine worlds. All of them connected to Yggdrasil. An ash tree. Nine worlds are divided roughly into three levels. Probably easiest to call them heaven, earth, and the underworld.
Heaven, where the trunk and branches of the tree are, is where Asgard, Vanaheim, and Alfheim are. Alfheim is home to the light elves. Asgard is the land of the Aesir, the most important and best-known Norse gods. Vanaheim is the land of the Vanir, other gods. Fewer stories about them, kind of got the idea the Aesir were more glorious and warlike, while the Vanir were more peaceful and artistic Also an eagle in the branches of Yggdrasil.
Upper roots of Yggdrasil hold earth. Much of it is Midgard, the world of humans. Connects to Asgard via Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, which is guarded by one of the Aesir - Heimdall. Midgard is circled by Jormungandr, the world serpent, who bites his own tail. Also part of earth is Jotunheim, world of the frost giants or Jotuns, longtime enemies of the Aesir. Mimir's Well, where one of Yggdrasil's roots ends, is in Jotunheim. Underground in earth are Svartalfheim, home to the dark elves, and Nidavellir, realm of the dwarves.
Underworld is half Muspelheim, an inhospitable world of fire. Other half is a slightly less inhospitable world of ice, Niflheim. Houses Hel, world of the dead, and the Niddhogg, a demon dragon thing, gnawing on one of Yggdrasil's roots. Supposed to brak through it at Ragnarok, the end of the world. Niddhogg and the eagle in the branches exchange insults, delivered up and down Yggdrasil by Ratatosk the squirrel.
Muspelheim and Niflheim are the oldest worlds. Everything else was built out from the primordial void between them called Ginnungagap.
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Alright.... Norse Mythology envisioned their cosmology as nine worlds. All of them connected to Yggdrasil. An ash tree. Nine worlds are divided roughly into three levels. Probably easiest to call them heaven, earth, and the underworld.
Heaven, where the trunk and branches of the tree are, is where Asgard, Vanaheim, and Alfheim are. Alfheim is home to the light elves. Asgard is the land of the Aesir, the most important and best-known Norse gods. Vanaheim is the land of the Vanir, other gods. Fewer stories about them, kind of got the idea the Aesir were more glorious and warlike, while the Vanir were more peaceful and artistic Also an eagle in the branches of Yggdrasil.
Upper roots of Yggdrasil hold earth. Much of it is Midgard, the world of humans. Connects to Asgard via Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, which is guarded by one of the Aesir - Heimdall. Midgard is circled by Jormungandr, the world serpent, who bites his own tail. Also part of earth is Jotunheim, world of the frost giants or Jotuns, longtime enemies of the Aesir. Mimir's Well, where one of Yggdrasil's roots ends, is in Jotunheim. Underground in earth are Svartalfheim, home to the dark elves, and Nidavellir, realm of the dwarves.
Underworld is half Muspelheim, an inhospitable world of fire. Other half is a slightly less inhospitable world of ice, Niflheim. Houses Hel, world of the dead, and the Niddhogg, a demon dragon thing, gnawing on one of Yggdrasil's roots. Supposed to brak through it at Ragnarok, the end of the world. Niddhogg and the eagle in the branches exchange insults, delivered up and down Yggdrasil by Ratatosk the squirrel.
Muspelheim and Niflheim are the oldest worlds. Everything else was built out from the primordial void between them called Ginnungagap.