Vikings Creations and Endings 4

Vikings Creations and Endings 4

Viking believed the world was crated in a very interesting way.

The Ginnungagap

Before there was soil, or sky, or any green thing, there was only the gaping abyss of Ginnungagap.

There was absolutly nothing in thi place. Just darkness and space.

This chaos of perfect silence and darkness lay between the homeland of elemental fire, Muspelheim, and the homeland of elemental ice, Niflheim.

Multiple Choice

What was in the Gannungagap?

• A potatoe

• The world

• Nothing

Ymir

Frost from Niflheim and billowing flames from Muspelheim crept toward each other until they met in Ginnungagap.

The fire melted the ice and formed themselves into Ymir the first of the godlike but destructive giants.

When Ymir slept more giants were created by the sweat of his armpits.

Audhumla

In the Gannungagap there was a Giant Celestial Space Cow called Audhumla.

This giant cow gave it's milk to Ymir and fed the Giants.

It licked a giant block of salt to feed itself. One day it licked to the middle and the first of the Aesir appeared, Buri.

Multiple Choice

Ymir was the first...

• Human

• Giant

• Cow

Multiple Choice

Audhumla was a....

• Sausage

• Giant celestial space cow

• Fire Giant

The first Gods

Buri had a son called Bor who married a Giantess called Bestla.

Bestla and Bor had three children Odin, Vili and Ve.

These were the first of the gods.

Odin and his two brothers would go to war with th Giants and would eventually kill Ymir.

Multiple Select

What were Odins two brothers called?

• Vili

• Chaz

• Ve

• Dave

Creating The World

Odin and his brothers created the world from the body of Ymir.

The blood from his body made the rivers and sea.

The earth was made from his skin.

His skull was thrown into the Gannungagap to create the sky and his brains were cast into the sky to make the clouds.

Creating The World

Tree and vegetation was created by planting his hair.

His teeth, which had been broken in the fight, went to make the rocks and mountains.

Four Dwarves volunteered to hold up the sky at the four corners of the world.

Multiple Choice

The clouds are made from Ymirs...

• Teeth

• Brains

• Toes

Multiple Choice

What holds up the sky?

• Four Dwarves

• Elephants

• Pillars

People

The gods eventually formed the first man and woman, Ask and Embla, from two tree trunks, and built a fence around their dwelling-place, Midgard, to protect them from the giants.

Ragnarok

The end of the world

End of the World

Vikings believed they knew how the world would end.

That the armies of the dead would meet and fight.

That everything would die and the world would be born again.

Darkness

The wolves Skoll and Hatti, who chase the sun and moon will catch their prey and darkness will fall across all the lands.

Yggdrasil, the giant tree that connects all the worlds will shake and trees and mountains will fall.

The giant golden rooster will start to crow and wake thearmies of the dead in both Nifelheim and Valhalla.

Loki and his children

Jormunandr will rise from the sea and all the ocians will boil.

Fenris, the giant wolf will have broken free from his chains. He opened his mouth so wide it touched the sky and ate everything in his path.

Loki's ship, made of all the fingernails of the dead set sail, crewed by fire giants and the dead of Niflheim.

Multiple Choice

Who is captain of the ship made of finger nails?

• Odin

• Loki

• Thor

Multiple Choice

What do Skoll and Hati do?

• Fall asleep

• Wake up the dead

• Eat the sun and moon

Fire Giants

Surt, the largest of all giants, will lead an army of Fire Giants. They will march across the Bifrost burning it behind them.

Surt will carry a giant, flamming sword.

Heimdal will blow a great horn to bring all people to battle.

Odin vs Fenris

Odin will ride his six legged horse to fight. He will clash will the giant wolf Fenris.

Odin will fight more bravely than anyone ever. But will be swallowed by fenris!

Odins son, Vidar, will rip off Fenris's head. Using his thick boots to protect his feet from the wolfs teeth.

Multiple Choice

Who kills Odin?

• Surt

• Fenris

• Jormundandr

Gods and Death

The wolf Gram will fight the one armed god Tyr. They will kill each other.

Heimdal will fight Loki. Again, both will die in the fight.

Multiple Choice

Who dies?

• Loki

• Heimdal

• Loki and Heimdal

Freyr and Thor

Freyr, the brother of Freya, will fight Surt. But without his magical sword he cannot win. Surt will slay Freyr and with his final breath Freyr will kill the Fire Giant.

Thor will fight Jormangundr. Thor will kill the beast with massive blows of his hammer. But, in doing so will cover himself in poison and die.

Multiple Choice

Thor and Jormangundr both die.

• True

• False

The world will burn

New Begining

Vidar and a few other gods – Vali, Baldur, Hodr, and Thor’s sons Modi and Magni – will survive the downfall of the old world, and will live joyously in the new one.

Vidar will become King of this new world like his father before him.

A man and a woman, Lif and Lifthrasir will have hidden inside the world tree and will have survived. They will populate this new world.