place

Asgard

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The enclosed home of the Aesir in Norse cosmology. Not Valhalla the hall, and not Olympus under another spelling.

Also known as Ásgarðr

Norse tradition

  • Asgard appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning presents Ásgarðr as the enclosed home of the Æsir. A named Norse cosmology-place, attested in that prose, not Valhalla the hall and not Olympus under another spelling.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.