Part one of term paper
"He made heaven and earth and skies and everything in them." "But his greatest work is that he made man…" (from "Gylfaginning" in Snorra Edda) While this quote exemplifies how people came to be, it is only a simplification of the world’s creation. The start of life on Earth came about in a most complex, and in some respects a peculiar ...

Part two of term paper
... and were deposited on Ginnungagap. Sparks and heat from Muspell blew into Ginnungagap, and where this heat met up with the rime came drippings that took the form of the giant, Ymir. From Ymir’s sweat under his arm came a male and female, a son came from one of his legs, and the rest of the giants descended from these people. The cow, Audhumla, came about from melting rime and as it licked the salty rime-stones, Buri was "born." Buri begat a son named Bor; with the giantess Bestla as his wife, ...