The Nine Worlds of Norse Cosmology, c. 900–1250 | Calm Bedtime History
You are sitting in a longhouse in Iceland, sometime around the year 1000. Outside, the wind moves through volcanic rock and sparse birch. Inside, someone recites from memory the words of the Völuspá, the Prophecy of the Seeress. The poem speaks of nine worlds, held in the branches and roots of an ash tree called Yggdrasil. This is how the Norse understood the shape of everything that exists.
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.