Article: The Essentials Of Norse Mythology

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...
 

View Article:
The Essentials Of Norse Mythology

Back To Articles Directory Listing Page

Home | Back To Articles Directory

Send your comments, Suggestions or Queries regarding this site at roseindia_net@yahoo.com.

Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved.