Norse Mythology

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Norse Mythology
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Norse Mythology

• Before Christianity
• Religion of the Vikings

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How the world was created

• Nothing Ginnunga Gap
• Warm Muspelheim and cold Nivlheim
• Yme ? Odin, Vilje and Ve
• Ask and Embla The first humans

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Cosmology

• Yggdrasil the tree of life
• Midgard home of the humans
• Åsgard home of the Gods
• Jotunheim home of Jotun and giants
• Hel home of the dead (sickness and of old age)
• The Norns Urd, Verdande and Skuld
• Ragnarok the end

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Æsir (Gods)
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Odin

• Lord of gods and humans
• God of wisdom, war, witchcraft and poetry
• God of storm and night
• Many women and many sons
• Valhall
• Hugin, Munin, Gere, Freke and Sleipner
• Zevs and Jupiter
• Óðinn

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Frigg

• Odins wife
• Spins the clouds
• The most powerful goddess
• God of the love, destiny and marriage
• Hera and Juno
• Frigg

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Tor

• God of thunder and battle
• God of fertility
• Bad temper
• The hammer Mjølner
• Two goats
• Þórr

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Loke

• Half-God
• Has mixed blood with Odin? magic powers
• Cunning and deseitful
• Fenrisulven, Midgardsormen and Hel
• Loki

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Balder

• Son of Odin and Frigg
• Favourite son
• God of radiance, rebirth, justice and light
• Good-looking
• Killed by Loke
• Baldr

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Frøya and Frøy

• Gods of fertility
• Frøya goddess of love, fertility, beauty, magic,
  war and death
• Beautiful
• Tears of gold
• Frøy god of fertility, prosperity, autumn and
  wealth
• Afrodite and Venus
• Freyja
• Freyr

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Idunn

• Goddess of youth
• Keeper of the golden apples
• Iðunn

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Rån and Æge

• Gods of the sea
• Rån fishes drowning men
• 9 daughters, the waves
• Poseidon and Neptun
• Ægir
• Rán

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Njord

• God of seamanship, sailing, navigation and the
  sea
• God of the wind
• God of luck at sea
• Father of Frøya and Frøy
• Poseidon and Neptun
• Njörðr

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• Made by Sandra and Maryanne

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