Thank you for writing this, and many of your other posts. I'm writing Norse-inspired fantasy fiction, and I care a lot about a world that coheres, reflecting a consistent culture/philosophy/view of life and reality. There's not so much in the way of remaining detail that I want to discard any of it, in trying to make a world that holds together that the Old Norse would have recognized.
Though I'm probably not going to abandon the popular conception of the Nine Worlds entirely, it's good to have a better picture of what they would have _actually_ thought.
Just found your writings, love how thorough and clear you are with comparing everything to the sources.
Just a thought: while 3 roots of Yggdrasil are mentioned, does it specify there are NOT more than 3? Perhaps there were many more known in other stories that are now lost.
It does not specifically say there are “only” three, but there are also no surviving sources giving us a reason to think there are any more than the three mentioned. We can always speculate about what might have been included in lost information, but unfortunately we can only draw conclusions based on what has actually survived :)
Thank you for writing this, and many of your other posts. I'm writing Norse-inspired fantasy fiction, and I care a lot about a world that coheres, reflecting a consistent culture/philosophy/view of life and reality. There's not so much in the way of remaining detail that I want to discard any of it, in trying to make a world that holds together that the Old Norse would have recognized.
Though I'm probably not going to abandon the popular conception of the Nine Worlds entirely, it's good to have a better picture of what they would have _actually_ thought.
Just found your writings, love how thorough and clear you are with comparing everything to the sources.
Just a thought: while 3 roots of Yggdrasil are mentioned, does it specify there are NOT more than 3? Perhaps there were many more known in other stories that are now lost.
It does not specifically say there are “only” three, but there are also no surviving sources giving us a reason to think there are any more than the three mentioned. We can always speculate about what might have been included in lost information, but unfortunately we can only draw conclusions based on what has actually survived :)