the two divine races
the Tree
nine worlds
men, elves, dwarves and jotuns
the Norns
runes
Heimdall/Rig begetting the first thralls, yeomen and highborn
Kon, the first king
the first war
Mimir's well and Odin's eye
the carving of the first man and woman from logs of ash and elm
Njord, Freyr and Freyja
the building of the wall around Asgard
Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse
Mimir's treacherously severed but magically reanimated head
the giant Hymir
the origin of Loki
Odin's self-sacrifice
Odin's brothers
the story of Hadding
For longer retellings of some of these stories and also of others, we can read Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Because of the Eddas, we know more about Scandinavian paganism than we do, say, about Celtic paganism in pre-Roman Gaul. The Roman pantheon, endorsed by the state, would pretty much cause other pagan mythologies to fade away. A process which Christianity hastened and completed.
Sean
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