Article: The Essentials Of Norse Mythology
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The Essentials Of Norse Mythology
Complex but interesting, Norse mythology is the pre-Christian religion of the Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish peoples. It was mainly rooted from the Old Icelandic writing known as the 'Elder Edda,' which unknown skálds wrote centuries before the Christianization of the North. It is multilayered, often contradictory, and reveals a number of parallelisms with other mythologies.
Like any other mythology, Norse mythology has its own version of the world?s creation; but before one can readily understand and imagine this, one needs to know the geography of the world in which the Norse mythological characters existed.
*GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD*
According to Norse mythology, the world consisted of three levels: the Upper, the Middle, and the Lower Lev...
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