北欧神话Norse+mythology3

The creation of the world (创世界)
The birth of Giants（巨人）: The beginning of life was fire and ice, with the existence of only two worlds: Muspelheim(穆斯贝尔海姆) and Niflheim（尼福尔海姆）. When the warm air of Muspelheim hit the cold ice of Niflheim, the Ymir （尤弥尔） and te icy cow Audhumla（欧德姆布拉） were created.From the sweat（流汗） under his left armpit（ 腋窝） male and female were conceived（怀 孕）.Ymir's bred（生育） a man and a woman--Mimir（密米尔） and Bestla（贝斯特拉）.
Sources
• Most of the existing records on Norse myth date from the 11th to 18th century, having gone through more than two centuries of oral preservation（保存） in what was at least officially a Pagan society. The main sources of our knowledge about Norse myth are from the Poetic Edda (诗体埃达或前埃达) and the Prose Edda（散文埃达或后 埃达）.
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Yggdrasil（世界之树）
Asgard阿斯嘉特: Home of the Gods
Alfheim亚尔夫海姆: Home of the Elves ( right next to Asgard ) Midgard中间世界/米德加尔特: Home of the Humans
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The birth of Gods:
• the cow Audhumbla licked on a salt stone.After three days,Buri（布利） appear from the stone.Borr（包尔） is the son of Buri,and he marry Bestla.Borr and Bestla is the parents of the three gods Odin（奥丁）, Vili （威利） and Ve（菲）. • After these gods killed Ymir.Then the gods created worlds using Ymir's flesh for dirt, his blood for the Oceans, rivers and lakes, his bones for stone, his brain as the clouds, his skull for the heaven.
Western Myth
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Norse myth
北欧神话
About Norse myth
• Norse myth, a part of the Germanic(日耳曼人的) mythology, the gods in Norse myth are not omnipotent(万能的). They also make mistakes. The world in Norse myth is not everlasting（永恒）; the world in Norse myth has end and beginning. It sounds more close to our daily life.
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The first poem in the Poetic Edda (the Elder Edda) is the “Völuspa”. This is the story of the creation of the world and the prophecy of the end of the world. arfs（矮人） and Elves（精灵） was created : • The Dwarfs and Elves are apart
of Ymir's body. When worms transformed into dwarfs and Elves. The Dwarfs:The gods ordered four of the dwarfs to support the sky. They did not want to risk the sky falling down. The four dwarfs were named East, West, South and North. The other dwarfs established their homes in rocks, caves and grottos under the ground. the Dark Elves：hated the sun, hideous, turn into stones when expose in the light the Light Elves：beautiful creatures, minor gods of nature, delivered an inspiration to art or music
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The first humans:
The gods transformed two tree trunks into the shape of humans. Odin gave them life, Vili gave them mind and Ve gave them the ability to hear, see, and speak. The gods named them Askur(阿斯克) and Embla(恩布拉) and built the kingdom of Middle-earth for them。 The Gods made a colorful bridge connecting the two worlds. They named this bridge Bifrost.
Jotunheim约顿海姆: Home of the Giants
Svartalfheim瓦特海姆: Home of the Dwarves Vanaheim华纳海姆: Home of the Vanir (Nobody knows where the land )
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A story about Sun and Moon
• The Sun and Moon • Sol(the Sun) and Máni(the Moon) rode across the sky in chariots(战车). Sol was female and Máni was male. • A gruesome(可怕的) female Jotun lived in the East woods. All her children were born as wolves. Her children Skoll and Hati spent all their time pursuing(追捕) Sol and Máni.That is one reason why sun and moon travel quickly across the sky.
The Prose Edda was written by Sturluson from Iceland around the year 1200. It is also called the Younger Edda because the Poetic Edda is of an earlier date.
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Ragnarok(末世神话)
• It is the final battle between the gods and the giants.Ragnarok was the end of the world in Norse myth.It meant the end of most of the gods and giants.But two humans hiding in the world tree Yggdrasil（世界之树） ,this will be a new beginning of the world.
The Gods in Norse myth
• • • • • • • • • • • • ● Odin奥汀: He is the king of the gods who rulers the world. ● Frigg 弗丽嘉: She is in charge of marriage and family. She is Odin's wife. ● Loki 洛基: He is the fire-god, Odin’s brother, the posterity of Giant Ymir. It is said that Loki is handsome but grumpy. He becomes to be a fiend at last. ● Freyr 弗雷: He is Helios, the symbol of abundance, prosperity, love and peace. ● Thor 索尔: He is the thunder-god, the eldest son of the Lord God Odin. ● Sif 西芙: She is Thor's wife. She has beautiful and shining blond hair. ● Tyr 提尔:He is Ares, the son of Giant Schimmel. ● Freyja弗蕾亚: Controlling of fertility and love. She is Freyja's younger sister. ● Heimdall海姆达尔: He is the Guardian of Gods’ World. ● Baldur巴尔德尔: He is Odin’s son, the brightness-god. He always wears a smile on his face. ● Hoder霍尔德尔: He is the Baldur’s twin brother, the darkness-god. He is fierce and sullen. ● Budle布吉拉: He is Odin’s son, the poetry-god. back