The Sons of Borr
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Anomalies
Ymir (non.)
Aurgelmir (non.)
Ymir was the primeval being who was suckled by the cow Auðhumla. He
was the ancestor of the race of giants. He was killed by the sons of
Bor, Óðinn, Vili, and Vé, and they created the earth out of his
dismembered corpse.
Gods and Goddesses
Vili (non.)
One of the three sons of the giant Borr and his wife Bestla. Together
with his brothers, Óðinn and Vé, he killed the giant Ymir and created
the earth from Ymir's dismembered body.
Vé (non.)
One of the three sons of the giant Borr and his wife Bestla. Together
with his brothers, Óðinn and Vali, he killed the giant Ymir and created
the earth from Ymir's dismembered body.
Óðinn (non.)
Odin (en.)
The chief god of the Æsir in The Prose Edda.
However, in Heimskringla he was a mortal who
tricks the King of Sweden into believing that he was a god.
Myths
Creation Myth
A series of myths concerning the creation of the world, the origins of
the gods, and the creation of humans.
Death of Ymir
MythYmir was the primeval being who was killed by the sons
of Bor, Óðinn, Vili and Vé, who created the cosmos out of his
dismembered corpse.
Sons of Borr
The three sons of the giant Borr were Óðinn, Vili and Vé. They slew
the primordial giant Ymir and created Midgardr from his body.
Source Materials:
Eddukvæði
Poetic Edda
This collection of eddic poems was compiled by an anonymous scholar in
Iceland in the twelfth century. It was for a time mistakenly attributed
to a scholar named Sæmundr hinn fróði (1056–1133) and thus was known as
Sæmundar Edda.
Völuspá (non.)
Prophecy of the Seeress (en.)
One of the mythological poems in the Poetic Edda. A Völva, or seeress,
recites the history of the world to Óðinn. She then goes on to
prophesize the destruction of the world at the Battle of Ragnarok and
its rebirth after the battle. Völuspá is preserved in the late
thirteenth-century Codex Regius manuscript, a.k.a. GKS 2365 4º, and in
the fourteenth-century Hauksbók manuscripts, i.e., AM 371 4to, AM 544
4to and AM 675 4to.
Ældre Eddas
Gudesange (da.)
An edition of the Poetic Edda with
illustrations by Lorenz Frølich.
Source Persons
Frølich,
Lorenz (da.)
b. 1820
d. 1908
Nationality: Danish
Frolich was a painter, illustrator and etcher.
d. 1908
Nationality: Danish
Frolich was a painter, illustrator and etcher.
Gjellerup,
Karl (da.)
b. 2nd June 1857
d. 13th October 1919
Nationality: Danish
Gellurup was a Danish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.
d. 13th October 1919
Nationality: Danish
Gellurup was a Danish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.