Facts about Ginnungagap

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   From Ginnungagap, the world was formed from Ymir's body after the gods Odin, Vili, and Vé slew him.

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   Snorri Sturluson describes Ginnungagap in the Prose Edda as appearing mild and calm, despite existing between regions of extreme heat and cold.

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   According to the Prose Edda, Ginnungagap was where the first being, the frost giant Ymir, came into existence as ice and fire met.

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   The name Ginnungagap is interpreted by scholars to mean 'yawning void' or 'gap of gaps' in Old Norse.

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   In Norse cosmology, Ginnungagap is the primordial void that existed before creation, lying between the realms of fire Muspelheim and ice Niflheim.

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