Norse Mythology

The Norse myths keep coming back in my Atlantis research. I read them in two ways: as the stories of the Edda themselves, and through Ignatius Donnelly, who saw the Æsir as Atlantean kings remembered as gods. In his 1882 book he wrote one line that I keep going back to:

The Scandinavian Olympus was probably Atlantis.

Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882)

The gods

I start with the gods who have their own page. Odin, Woden and Wotan are one Germanic chief god under three dialect names.

Odin

Woden and Wotan

Freyja

Thor

The Vanir

The Vanir are the second family of Norse gods, linked with fertility and seiðr. Freyja came from them to live in Asgard after their war with the Æsir.

The Vanir gods

Njörðr, Freyr and Freyja, the gods of fertility, prosperity and seiðr.

The Æsir-Vanir War

The war between the two groups of gods, which began over Gullveig.

The worlds

Norse myth places humans in Midgard, between frost and fire, with Asgard above it. These pages follow those worlds from the body of Ymir onward.

Asgard

The fortress of the Æsir, and Donnelly's claim that the Norse Olympus was Atlantis.

Midgard

The middle world of humans, between the realms of frost and fire.

Ymir and the creation of the world

The first giant, born where the ice of Niflheim met the heat of Muspelheim.

Völuspá, stanza 10

The Prophecy of the Seeress on the making of the dwarfs.

The sea

The sea has its own powers in the North. Ægir hosts the gods in his hall under the waves, and the Havfrue lives on in folklore.

Ægir and his daughters

The sea giant, his wife Rán and the Nine Wave Maidens.

Havfrue

The sea woman of Scandinavian folklore.

Donnelly's Norse Atlantis

In 1882 Ignatius Donnelly read the Norse Olympus as Atlantis. I also test the 432,000 warriors of Valhalla against the same number in Berossus and the Kali Yuga.

432,000 years

The 540 doors of Valhalla with 800 warriors behind each, set next to Berossus and the Kali Yuga.