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Title: Norse Mythology


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Norse Mythology
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Norse Mythology
  • Before Christianity
  • Religion of the Vikings

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How the world was created
  • Nothing Ginnunga Gap
  • Warm Muspelheim and cold Nivlheim
  • Yme ? Odin, Vilje and Ve
  • Ask and Embla The first humans

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Cosmology
  • Yggdrasil the tree of life
  • Midgard home of the humans
  • Åsgard home of the Gods
  • Jotunheim home of Jotun and giants
  • Hel home of the dead (sickness and of old age)
  • The Norns Urd, Verdande and Skuld
  • Ragnarok the end

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Æsir (Gods)
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Odin
  • Lord of gods and humans
  • God of wisdom, war, witchcraft and poetry
  • God of storm and night
  • Many women and many sons
  • Valhall
  • Hugin, Munin, Gere, Freke and Sleipner
  • Zevs and Jupiter
  • Óðinn

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Frigg
  • Odins wife
  • Spins the clouds
  • The most powerful goddess
  • God of the love, destiny and marriage
  • Hera and Juno
  • Frigg

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Tor
  • God of thunder and battle
  • God of fertility
  • Bad temper
  • The hammer Mjølner
  • Two goats
  • Þórr

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Loke
  • Half-God
  • Has mixed blood with Odin? magic powers
  • Cunning and deseitful
  • Fenrisulven, Midgardsormen and Hel
  • Loki

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Balder
  • Son of Odin and Frigg
  • Favourite son
  • God of radiance, rebirth, justice and light
  • Good-looking
  • Killed by Loke
  • Baldr

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Frøya and Frøy
  • Gods of fertility
  • Frøya goddess of love, fertility, beauty, magic,
    war and death
  • Beautiful
  • Tears of gold
  • Frøy god of fertility, prosperity, autumn and
    wealth
  • Afrodite and Venus
  • Freyja
  • Freyr

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Idunn
  • Goddess of youth
  • Keeper of the golden apples
  • Iðunn

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Rån and Æge
  • Gods of the sea
  • Rån fishes drowning men
  • 9 daughters, the waves
  • Poseidon and Neptun
  • Ægir
  • Rán

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Njord
  • God of seamanship, sailing, navigation and the
    sea
  • God of the wind
  • God of luck at sea
  • Father of Frøya and Frøy
  • Poseidon and Neptun
  • Njörðr

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  • Preformed by Maja
  • Made by Sandra and Maryanne

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