ANTHROP 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Flyting, Baldr, Sharpening Stone
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3 roots grow into 3 regions the tree is set in white mud: spring of urdarbrunn (well of fate), judgment place of the gods, asgard, with urd guarding, plus vanaheim, alfheim (elf land), valhalla (land of the dead), migard plus jotunheim (giant land), utgard (utmost/furthest land), svartalfheim (dark, nidavellir (lower well) dwarves live there, spring of hvergelmir, niflheim with hel. Sky: the giant narvi has a daughter night, night and naglfari (nail traveler) bears aud, night and annar bears earth, night and delling (related to odin) bears day, night"s chariot pulled by hrim fraxi (rime mane, day"s chariot is pulled by skin fraxi (shining mane, atleast 1500 years old, probably 2000 or more, mund il fari (month by traveling) (a human) has son, moon, and daughter, sun (married a man, glen, moon and sun are pulled by chariots, moon is accompanied by divine twins , he snatched bil and hjuki whose father was.
