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Norse Mythology Classroom


Welcome to the Norse Mythology Classroom!


Teachers: [Linn Scarlett] & [lord of the trident]


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Students:


1. [Lynnaelia]
2. [Dark Angel 83 (Have got a job =) )]
3. [Saber]
4. [Tonje]
5. [Alorin of Ensavias]
6. [Uller]
7. [♥Flames♥]
8. [Everin]
9. [irana]
10. [Oude acc van Melcinítan]
11. [Mindilynn]
12. [Gabriel_Deciel]

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Brief Outline:


1. In the beginning, there was nothing...

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In the beginning, there was nothing...


The beginning of the Norse mythological age started about 1500bc to 500bc the early peoples of this bronze age , we the followers of the old gods and the people were referred to as the battle axe people with an emerging warrior caste they left evidence of belief in personified gods, gods of the sky, battle, fertility and and the sun. many of these stone etchings can be found in sweden.there was a very strong accent on phallic and battle worship,(fertility and agression)as trade routes opened and influence of other peoples occured the evolvment of the gods of the viking age formed the design that is similiar in both scandinavian art and scottish picttish art is the same early scandinavian farmers learned agricultural techniques from the inhabitants of northern scotland and brought back the knotwork designs and evolved them into what was to become viking art.germanic influences were also instremental in the progression tward the scandinavians thru the iron age. and to the early beginings of the vendel age of the vikings .the excavation at sutton hoo england shows the weath and development of the northman it is from the vendel period the the legandary hero beowulf is to have come from. the classic viking age started roughly 700 ad and lasted until the end of the 11th century.so we begin with a what the the norse refer to as the great void ,in the beginning there was nothing no sea,no grass,no heaven,nothing only a void.

The ginnungagap (the nothing) consisted of two vastly different regions, the region of dark and frost called NIFLHEIM later to be known as the region of death. and the region of fire and flame called MUSPELL.

When the fiery flame of the south met the frozen dark the ice melted and the drops from this fused to form the first living creature,a terrible giant called Y'MIR the ancestor to the evil race of giants.Y'MIR was a hermaphidite and when he sweated in his sleep a male and female grew from his left armpit.

Y'MIR received nurishment from another creature shaped from the melting ice of niflheim,AUDUMBLA a cows whose udders spurted forth rivers of milk to sustain the giant, the cow licked blocks of ice for salt and as she did so the hair of a man apeared and as the cow continued the the figure of a man was left, this was BURI the ansestor to the gods,buri means (born) buri had a son that married a frost giantess and her three children were ODIN and his two brothers.

In Norse mythology, Ymir is the primordial giant and the progenitor of the race of FROST giants. He was created from the melting ice of Niflheim, when it came in contact with the hot air from Muspell.

From Ymir's sleeping body the first giants sprang forth:
one of his legs fathered a son on his other leg while from under his armpit a man and women grew out.'

Then about Buri, he's concidered the first god and he had a son indeed, named Bor. I don't know about how he was created/born but he did have three sons.
Which are: Odin, Villi and Ve, he was married to Bestla, the daughter of Bolthorn.

Odin is the chief divinity of the Norse pantheon, the foremost of the Aesir.
Odin is a son of Bor and Bestla. He is called Alfadir, Allfather, for he is indeed father of the gods.

With Frigg he is the father of Balder, Hod, and Hermod. He fathered Thor on the goddess Jord; and the giantess Grid became the mother of Vidar.

About Villi and Ve isnt much known, only that they helped Odin with the creation of the Cosmos as well as the first Humans.

But anyway, Jord wasnt a godess, she was a Giant. Oh and Aesir are the 'war' related gods. The others in Vanaheim are the fertility gods. Odin, Thor are Aesir but Freyr and Njord, as example, aren't.

As I'm taught, the world is divided in three, Asgård where the gods live in the middle, Midgård where the humans live outside Asgård and outside Midgård lies Utgård where trolls, giants and other enemies to the gods live.. And then of course, under the world, Hel the world of the dead... Nifelheim and Muspelheim where places that existed before the world was created.

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2003-07-01 [lord of the trident]: hahahaha okay

2003-07-01 [Lynnaelia]: All right, we should either trim up or delete or whatever, the myths already up, and put a spot for the students to list themselves and then have an introduction to the class...?

2003-07-01 [Linn Scarlett]: *makes frog-face*DUHUH* iam working on it *smiles*

2003-07-01 [Lynnaelia]: *makes turtle-face* I was thinking aloud. Nya. ^-^;;;;;

2003-07-03 [Dark Angel 83 (Have got a job =) )]: What should we be doing in this class? Talk about the beginning of the myth or about the people or both? And how should the class work? What should we be doing besides talking about the stories?

2003-07-03 [Linn Scarlett]: I help Graulv with the Class, and ill try to make up some things you can do *lol* and most important, we can talk about the MEANING of the story, example: which force of nature they explain, like Thor and his Hammer, really, when its raining really hard, you should listen to the Thunder, if you listen closely, you will notice that it sounds as if some one in a chariot, pulled by a few horses rides by O.o scary, actually

2003-07-03 [Dark Angel 83 (Have got a job =) )]: Ohh I see.. It sounds to be a great class, then :) Are we going to have the class here, or in another room?

2003-07-03 [Dark Angel 83 (Have got a job =) )]: I have put a drawing of Odin up in my house. If you wanna see it, please tell me what you think of it =)

2003-07-09 [Aldriona]: I feel that there's one thing I can help you teachers with, the spelling. Since I'm swedish, I know the right spellings of the names. For example, its Nifelheim and Muspelheim, not Niflheim and Muspell....

2003-07-13 [lord of the trident]: thank you ALDRIONA your input is very important , your correction is very welcome.

2003-07-22 [Saber]: How do I join?

2003-07-23 [Linn Scarlett]: hmz, i use the orginal terms *from Norway* see, but i accept your help thanxies! oh and Saber, just put your name on the list at the beginning of this page *blinks* oh and graulv, i photographed Baldr's feet O.o

2003-07-23 [Saber]: will u be teachin bout the various beasts such as the nidhogg and fenris etc.

2003-07-23 [Linn Scarlett]: ff course...everything and all not just the gods :p

2003-08-01 [Saber]: the "9 worlds" are all differnt worlds, like I think theres a world of elves etc. (Or that could just be my brain decaying and withering away)

2003-08-01 [Linn Scarlett]: well a little your brain and a little well, not *blinks* there are 3 'plains' on which the worlds lay, actually

2003-08-02 [Saber]: Yeah just I didn't remeber what i said on the site, there all linked with that tree called yygdrasil (odins chariot) thingie?

2003-08-02 [Linn Scarlett]: yes the world tree, Yggdrasil, and on the top plain is between the branches, the second is a little lower, near the roods of the branches, the third is underneath the roods of Yggdrasil.

2003-08-02 [Saber]: where the nidhogg lives, I am begining to understand. *brain starts functioning again*

2003-08-02 [Linn Scarlett]: ghehe, Hel and *insert long name* are there...realms of the dead if you want to call it that.

2003-08-02 [Saber]: yeah I visited that site,

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