The Vikings had their own religion and with different religions come different creation stories. The vikings creation story can be found in the Edda.
The story goes like this........
The chief of the gods, named Othin, called a wise-woman to get some information. She tells him about the past and how the world came to be. The gods took a giant, named Ymir, and used his body to make the world. When the world was first made the sun, moon, and stars did not know what their jobs were so the gods told them. The gods had a great meeting at Ithavoll, were they gave everything names such as dawn, twilight, and years. Ithavoll is also were they built shrines and temples. Then the gods played in the shrines and temples but one day three giant women came. Once again the gods used Ymir's body and created the dwarfs. Out of all the dwarfs the most powerful were Motsognir and Durin. The dwarfs had a home in the rocks but then many of them left to go live on near the beach on the coast. Then the gods made the first people, Ask and Embla. Along with humans came three women from underneath the tree that Ask and Embla were made from. They were called Urth, Verthandi, and Skuld and they represented the pas, present, and future. They controlled the fates of human beings by using runes. The first war occured when an evil witch tried to become a god, the gods tried to kill her over and over again but they she would come back to life. She was finally killed by two people and the gods had an assembly to see if the people should become gods also and Thor got angry.
citation
| "Ask and Embla by Robert Engels." commons wikimedia. Web. 18 Mar 2010. |
| "Thor." commons wikimedia. Web. 18 Mar 2010. |
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