Norse Creation Myth Analysis
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
The Norse CosmosThe Norse creation story tells us how the Norse cosmos came to be – from the hacked up body of a murdered giant. It's pretty weird, so let's take a closer look at the world that O...
Context
The earliest written versions of the Norse creation myth come from the Poetic Edda, a collection of poems found in a manuscript from the 1200s called the Codex Regius. (Old manuscripts always get c...