What are the nine countries in Nordic mythology?

In Norse mythology, the world supported by the Yggdrasil is divided into three layers and nine countries. The following is a rough classification, but in fact, because the correct information has been lost, there is more than one statement about the nine realms.

1 Asgard: The Kingdom of God. The place where assas people live. One of the biggest castles is Odin's Golden Palace. Varhala is also located here.

2. Wanahem: The place where the Warner Protoss lived. The reproduction of everything between heaven and earth, the ocean and the wind are all controlled by Warner Protoss. This protoss knows many mysterious spells that Odin doesn't know.

3. Alfheim: Land of the Elves. Where the elves live. Elves are particularly beautiful and have great power. They take care of flowers and plants, love light most, and are kind-hearted goblins.

4. Middle boundary/atrium /Midgard: the place where human beings live. There are three-color Hongqiao composed of ice, fire and air, which can lead to the kingdom of God.

5. Jotunheim (J? Tunheimr): the place where giants live. The signpost from the human world to the "giant country" is a horrible "Jarnvid"; There is also legend that the other side of the sea is a "giant country".

6.Svartalfheim: The place where dwarfs live. Dwarfs are skilled craftsmen with all kinds of mysterious powers and profound knowledge. They created a lot of wealth.

7. Hel: A country with the same name as Hel, also translated as "Hell". This is a cold and foggy place, a place that lasts all night, and only the dead can arrive.

8. Neverheim: Land of Mist. There is no obvious difference between the world of ice and snow and the country of death.

9. Muspelheim: The Country of Fire. South of the Kinlunga watershed, a hot country guarded by giant Steyr.

At the beginning of the expanded information world, there was neither sky nor land. In the dense fog, there is only one Ginnungagap gap. To the north of the canyon is Neverheim, a "foggy country", in which the spring named Hvergelmir is the source of all rivers. It is said that the water in one of the rivers is poisonous.

To the south of gap is Muspelheim, the "country of fire". In the interweaving of heat and ice, Ymir, the father of frost troll, and a giant cow named Odhambra were born. Ymir eats the milk secreted by Odem Bula for a living, while Odem Bula licks the salt grains on the ice.

After that, Ymir's body became the wisdom giant Mí mir and the female giant Bestla, both of whom belonged to the frost giant family. In addition, under the licking of the cow, Buli, the father of the gods, appeared on the ice. Bligh gave birth to Bohr, Bohr and Bestla gave birth to Odin, Willy and Vi.

The giant and the god are quite at odds, and the two sides go to war. Later, Ymir was killed by the gods and the giant was defeated. The remaining giants fled to Jotuheim and continued to hate the gods.

The gods decorated the earth and the sky with Ymir's body. Ymir's head turned into the sky, his brain into clouds, his body into the earth, his blood into the sea, his bones into mountains and his hair into trees. When Ymir's corpse rotted and maggots grew, these maggots became elves and dwarfs. Odin ordered the four dwarfs to support the four corners of the sky with Machamp.

Ymir's eyebrows were used to build a wall around Midgard. Then Odin captured the flames of Musbelheim, turned them into stars, the moon and the sun, and set the operation of the four seasons. The gods made men from gray branches and women from elm branches.

The man's name is "Askell" and the woman's name is "Embra". Odin gave them life and soul, Willie gave them reason and action, Wei gave them emotion, appearance and language. This is the ancestor of mankind.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Nordic Myth