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How the Norse Imagined the Beginning of Everything
Season 1, Ep. 20
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Before the world existed, Norse mythology places only three things: fire in the south, ice in the north, and between them an infinite abyss called Ginnungagap. From the meeting of those two forces, the first life emerged — a primordial giant, a cosmic cow, and eventually Odin himself. In this episode I tell the Norse creation story from the beginning, drawing on the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. One of the most striking origin myths ever imagined, and the foundation of everything Viking culture believed about the cosmos.
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