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According to these sources, the universe began with a realm of ice and a realm of fire floating side by side in a void. As these realms crept slowly toward each other, the ice began to melt, and the droplets gathered into the shape of a jötunn. His name was Ymir, and, when he slept, more jötnar were born from the sweat of his armpits.\n\nAs the ice continued to melt, Auðumbla the primordial cow took form. While nourishing Ymir with her milk, she began to lick away at a salt stone, until she revealed Búri, the first ever god. All other gods were descended from him, after some breeding with jötnar along the way, and these gods included three powerful brothers: Odin, Vili and Ve.\n\nOne day, Odin and his brothers decided to kill Ymir. His corpse was transformed into a new cosmos, with his flesh forming the earth, his bones forming the rocks, his blood forming the ocean, and his skull forming the sky. 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After manufacturing the cosmos from Ymir’s corpse, Odin and his brothers began to explore the new realms, and in one place they found a beach, with two tree trunks lying side by side. The trunks resembled a man and a woman, but they were completely lifeless and inert.\n\nOdin and his brothers decided to imbue the trunks with life. Odin blew the breath of life into them, while one of his brothers (Vili) provided movement and intelligence, and the other (Ve) provided speech, hearing and sight. By the time they were finished, the first humans had been created, and Odin named them Ask and Embla.\n\nAsk and Embla were given the realm of Midgard and encouraged to build a home. They were the mother and father of all future humans, like the Christian concept of Adam and Eve.\n\n![Graph](image://c53a8aa5-1227-4b0c-8b56-ad5ad500aaa1 \"Ask and Embla. 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When she arrived there, she showed the Æsir some powerful magic, which impressed and frightened them in equal parts.\n\nThe Æsir began to fear the Vanir, and eventually these feelings erupted into war. The Æsir marched on Vanaheim, attacking the realm using weapons and brute force, while the Vanir fought back using subtle forms of magic. In the end, the two sides were evenly matched, and they were forced to sign a truce.\n\nAs part of this truce, some of the Vanir moved to Asgard, while some of the Æsir moved to Vanaheim. Freya was probably one of the Vanir who moved to Asgard, and may even have become an honorary Æsir. The gods from both tribes also spat into a cauldron, and this saliva was turned into a man named Kvasir, the wisest human who ever lived.\n\n![Graph](image://5bc1f836-8f91-4f27-a845-68ba19817494 \"Æsir-Vanir War. 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At the end of one of these roots was Mímisbrunnr, a well which granted wisdom to anyone who drank there. Mímir was a divine being who guarded the well, and after drinking from it regularly, he was full of knowledge and wisdom.\n\nWhen Odin heard about Mímisbrunnr, he decided to pay the place a visit, and asked Mímir whether he could drink from the water. However, Mímir told him that he could only drink from the water if he sacrificed one of his eyes. Odin considered this for a moment, then he gouged out one of his eyes and dropped it into the well. Mímir was satisfied, and finally allowed Odin to drink.\n\nAt the end of the Æsir-Vanir War, Mímir was one of the Æsir who traveled to live with the Vanir. After a disagreement, the Vanir chopped off his head, but Odin managed to rescue it. 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Most of our knowledge about Sif comes from a story in the *Prose Edda*, which describes how Loki decided to cut off her locks as a practical joke.\n\nWhen Thor found out what had happened, he grabbed hold of Loki and threatened to break his bones, until Loki promised to replace Sif’s hair with a golden headpiece.\n\nLoki traveled to Nidavellir, where he spoke to the Sons of Ivaldi, a talented group of dwarves. After receiving a golden headpiece from them, Loki went to a second group of dwarves, and challenged them to produce an object of equal quality. They created several magical items, including Gullinbursti the gold-bristled boar, a golden ring which self-replicated every nine days, and Thor’s hammer, Mjöllnir.\n\nWhen Loki returned to Asgard, the gods judged that Mjöllnir was the most impressive of the objects that he had brought with him, but they were also pleased with the golden headpiece. It was soft and shining and beautiful, and, when placed upon Sif’s head, it attached to her scalp like a real head of hair.\n\n![Graph](image://8be677dd-316e-4f4f-ae80-0b498adb8eb5 \"Loki and Sif. 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The Norse believed that Fenrir was the child of Loki and a jötunn, a pair who also parented two other beings: Hel the goddess and Jörmungandr the serpent. The gods feared these monstrous siblings, and sent Hel away to live in the underworld, while banishing Jörmungandr to the bottom of the sea. As for Fenrir, the most monstrous of all, the gods decided to keep him bound in Asgard where they would be able to keep a watchful eye on him.\n\nThe gods knew that Fenrir would refuse to be bound, so they decided to deceive him, telling him that they wanted to wrap him in chains as a test of his monstrous strength. To make sure the binding would succeed, Odin turned to the dwarves for help, asking them to craft the strongest chain ever made.\n\nWhen the chain arrived, Fenrir was suspicious, and said that he would only perform the test of strength if one of the gods agreed to put their hand into his mouth as a show of faith. Týr, the god of justice, offered up his hand, while the other gods bound Fenrir with the dwarven chain. \n\nWhen Fenrir realized that he could not escape, he bit off Týr’s hand. This sacrifice was symbolically important to the Norse, who also made sacrifices during feasts and ceremonies, in an effort to maintain order against chaotic beings like Fenrir.\n\n![Graph](image://6d67398a-b66d-495d-b058-e096e3e14424 \"Binding of Fenrir. 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Hymir was nervous about this, because he knew Jörmungandr lurked in the deepest waters of the ocean, but Thor was insistent.\n\nWhen they reached the deepest part of the ocean, Thor dropped his line into the water, using the head of an ox as bait. Something huge and powerful took hold of the line, and it took all of Thor’s strength to yank the creature free from the water. Sure enough, there was Jörmungandr, vast and ferocious and spitting poison.\n\nThor grabbed his hammer, meaning to kill Jörmungandr, but before he had the chance, Hymir panicked and cut the line. Jörmungandr sank back down to the bottom of the ocean, completely unharmed, and Thor was furious. He shoved Hymir overboard, then returned to shore without him. This story was extremely popular with the Norse, who admired Thor for his strength and willpower. Archaeologists have discovered a number of stones throughout Scandinavia with depictions of this fishing trip carefully carved upon the surface.\n\n![Graph](image://3003a75c-2a99-4f82-8b34-3cc76e84ba28 \"Thor goes fishing. 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