Ymir Yggdrasil, The World Tree

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There were only Eight Worlds when I was born, and there were only Eight Worlds until I was sixteen. I was one of the seeds of Yggdrasil, the World Tree, the bridge to all of the worlds. How I became a person never really became known to me. I was the first of what you would call ‘people’. There was nothing but the lands of fire and ice, separated by a stretch of land called the Ginnungagap. Muspelheim, the land of the north, ravaged the land with its scorching heat as Niflheim, the land of the south, swept creatures upon their feet as frigid winds blew across the desolate landscape. The heat and ice met in the Ginnungagap, forming the river Élivágar. The river swirled rapidly as the two worlds collided. From the waves rose the first two beings, born from the venoms of Élivágar. …show more content…
Rose into the air as water swirled around them. As Ymir drank the milk of Auðhumla, his body began to burn up. A fine sheen of sweat covered his body and dripped from him onto the ground. The sweat gave birth to giants. From his arms, two humanoid beings were born. From between his legs, the next Jotun were born. Three gods were born from Borr, son of Búri, who was formed as Auðhumla licked the salty ice of Niflheim. The three gods were Odin, Vili, and Vé. When the three gods killed Ymir, they used his flesh to fashion the earth. His blood filled the oceans and raised hills, his hair grew trees, his brains shaped the clouds, and his skull was for the heavens. That was the story of how the Nine Worlds were created. There were only Eight Worlds. Supposedly Midgard, the human world, was there from the beginning, crafted from the eyebrows of Ymir. That is wrong, those were hairs, and therefore were made to make the smaller trees, shrubbery, in the worlds around
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