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Chapter 2. Connections 22
the intertwining of the two wove swirls of ever shifting fog, ice and hoarfrost,
always shifting from ice to water, to fog, and back again; constantly changing,
building, growing, and falling back upon itself. This was the first Current, and
with the constant roiling of fire and the Élivágar’s poisonous waters and ice,
life quickened and grew into the first being, the giant called Ymir. Thus,
began the second Current or the first of a long lineage of beings.
The rime-frost kept moving and shifting, and from it another being was
formed: the cow, Auðhumbla, who fed on the frothy, frozen brine. From Her
teats flowed four mighty rivers of milk upon which Ymir was fed. On the first
day as Auð humbla licked away at the blocks of ice, the hair of a man appeared;
by the second day, a head; and the third day, the entire man. He was called
Buri and was the first of the long lineage of the Gods. The process continued
and after a time, Buri had a son named Bor who eventually married one of
the daughters of Bolþór (a frost giant), named Bestla. She and Bor had three
sons: Óðinn, Vili, and Vé.
The three sons bore no love for the frost giants, and after a time, they
killed Ymir. The blood from his wounds flooded the land of the frost giants
and killed all except Bergelmir and his wife (frost giants) who escaped with
their lives in a boat made out of the trunk of a tree. The three sons laid
Ymir’s body in the Ginnungagap, which forms the world. His flesh became
the Earth (Midgard), his bones became the mountains, his teeth and shards of
bone became the broken boulders that are strewn about. His blood flowed into
low areas becoming the salty seas and, eventually, the lakes of the world. His
skull was raised up to become the sky. Pieces of brain were thrown up into the
air to become clouds, and sparks as they flew out of Muspell were caught up
and were tossed up to become the stars, the sun and the moon.. His eyebrows
were raised up from the surface of the earth to become a bulwark separating
Midgard from the Utlands (the Outlands) of Jötunheim.
The sun began to warm the rotting flesh of Ymir, and from that newly
made earth all manner of things began to grow. Maggots quickened within
the flesh becoming dwarves, and other Hidden Folk of the earth. Grass and
leeks started, then trees came up, two of which became the first man and
woman.
As the brothers were walking one day, they came upon two trees with no
fixed fate, neither breathing nor speaking. They had no hair nor fairness of
face. Óðinn gave them life’s breath; Vili, mind; and Vé, hair and fairness of
face. Thus began the race of men on Midgard, and to them, the three brothers
became Gods. Here was the beginning of the third Current of the Waters of
Life and the first of the long lineage of people.