Nine Realms of Norse Cosmology

<p>Nine Realms of Norse Cosmology written by Joshua J. Mark and narrated by DW Draffin: <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1305/nine-realms-of-norse-cosmology/" target="_blank">https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1305/nine-realms-of-norse-cosmology/</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Find it on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStudyofAntiquityandtheMiddleAges/featured" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/c/TheStudyofAntiq…ddleAges/featured</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>If you like our audio articles, please support us by becoming a member or donating to our non-profit company:</p> <p>- <a href="https://www.ancient.eu/membership/" target="_blank">www.ancient.eu/membership/</a></p> <p>- <a href="https://pages.donately.com/ancienteu/campaigns" target="_blank">www.ancient.eu/donate/</a></p> <p>- <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ahe" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/ahe</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Norse cosmology divided the universe into nine realms. The center of the universe was the great world-tree Yggdrasil and the nine realms either spread out from the tree or existed in levels stretching from the roots down and, marginally, side-to-side. Earlier Norse works (known as Eddic and Skaldic poetry) assume a knowledge of the cosmology and do not bother much with descriptions of locations or, in some cases, even specifics of what the realms were like and, because of this – and the fact that Norse religion had no written scripture – some of the realms are less clear than others.</p>