A Flood of Myths and Stories February 14, ... Norse. The Norse flood story is starkly different from the others in that the world was flooded, but not with water.

Before time as mortals know it, there existed Ginnungagap, an abyss of infinite void, where fire and ice converged. From this juxtaposition emerged Ymir, a primordial giant, and Audhumla, the cosmic ...

According to Norse myth, Skadi first visited Asgard, the home of the gods, to seek revenge. A giantess, she went armed for war because the gods had killed her father. But when she arrived, the ...

I also found it haunting that the Norse myths had a built-in, fated end: Ragnarok, where the Earth and gods are wiped out in a final flood, fire and death-battle. How poignant, to be a god and yet ...

Katy Waldman writes on the brutality in Neil Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology,” which, as in his blockbuster novel “American Gods,” feels giddy and cartoonishly weightless, until, suddenly, it ...