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Ginnungagap

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The yawning void before the worlds in Norse speech. Not void as a bare element-word alone, and not chaos as a Greek dump.

Norse tradition

  • Ginnungagap appears in Norse tradition.

    Gylfaginning names Ginnungagap as the yawning void between fire and mist before earth is made. A named gap in that prose cosmology, not chaos as a Greek word and not a sky dump alone.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.