Ginnungagap

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In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness" or "gaping gap") was a vast windy emptiness that existed before the ordering of the world. To the north of Ginnungagap lay the intense cold of Niflheim, to the south the insufferable heat of Muspelheim. At the beginning of time, the two met in the Ginnungagap; and where the heat met the frost, the frost drops melted and formed the substance eitr, which quickened into life in the form of the giant Ymir, the father of all Frost giants. See his entry for the continuation of the Old Norse story of the Creation.

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The Norse Myths (by Kevin Crossley Holland)

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