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When you subscribe, you get immediate and full access to all Premium articles, free eBooks, webinars by expert guests, discounts for online stores, and much more!Īt Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. To enjoy the rest of this article please join us there. This is a free preview of an exclusive article from Ancient Origins PREMIUM. These are Grimnismal 31 and Gylfaginning 15. Two passages from the Edda’s describe these roots in some detail. Yggdrasil, the immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology. It is implicitly the case in Grimnismal 35 ( á viðarrótum ). This is an alternative name for Yggdrasil. This is explicitly the case in Voluspa 2 where Mjötvid is mentioned. The nine worlds somehow exist below Yggdrasil. In Norse mythology, the wells, the roots and the different worlds constitute one complex motif. The well may be reminiscent of Urd’s Well at Yggdrasil’s roots. She lives underground, and this is where the girls find her. In her legend, two girls reach her world by jumping into a well. Hel corresponds to Vrouw Holle or Frau Holle from Dutch and German folk tales. Hel (1889) by Johannes Gehrts, pictured here with her hound Garmr.
Even Balder arrives in her halls when he is slain. The goddess Hel traditionally governs the dead. The line can just as well be translated as “he cast Hel into Niflheim and gave her power over the nine worlds.” Niflheim and the nine worlds then cover one and the same domain. ( Public Domain )Įspecially the quote from Gylfaginning seems to identify the nine worlds with the realm of the dead. Ellis-Davidson certainly argues so.Ī depiction of valkyries encountering the god Heimdallr as they carry a dead man to Valhalla (1906) by Lorenz Frølich. Originally, Valhalla may have been situated in Hel. Hel, Niflhel and Niflheim are interchangeably used in the sources. And it is certainly depicted below the earth. Lastly it is related to Nagrind, which is Valhalla’s main gate, but Valhalla is a place of the dead, too. And in three out of four times, these “worlds” are related to the Underworld, at one time Niflhel and Hel, at another time Niflheim. In each case, the “nine worlds” are under the earth. There villains at the tree’s roots will give you goat piss. ‘Hrimgrimnir is called the Thurs who will own you beneath in Nagrind. Hrímgrímnir heitir þurs, er þik hafa skal fyr nágrindr neðan þar þér vílmegir á viðarrótum geitahland gefi æðri drykkju fá þú aldregi. ‘ cast Hel in Niflheim and gave her power over nine worlds.’ Hel kastaði hann í Niflheim ok gaf henni vald yfir níu heimum. ‘Nine worlds I traveled beneath in Niflhel, where die the heroes from Hel.’ Níu kom ek heima fyr Níflhel neðan hinig deyja ór helju halir. ‘Of nine worlds, I remember, nine giantesses, the famous Mjötvið, beneath the earth.’ Níu man ek heima, níu íviðjur, mjötvið mæran fyr mold neðan. "Odin and the Völva" (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. Völuspá is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. One more passage briefly skims the concept, and that is Skirnismal 35. Only three passages mention the Nine Worlds and they are Voluspa 2, Vafthrudnismal 43 and Gylfaginning 34. Whereas this is a good practice from a psycho-analytical point of view, we should remember that this has little to do with what our ancestors understood by the concept. Modern heathenism has been fascinated by the concept of the Nine Worlds of Norse mythology and readily provides the names of these worlds and their meanings.
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