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Keightley, Thomas - Commentary on the Edda
Identifier
014275
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
From the Edda [transl Thomas Keightley]
The giant Ymir is a personification of Chaos, the undigested primal matter. The sons of Borr [other personifications] slew him. Out of him they formed the world; his blood made the sea, his flesh the land, his bones mountains; rocks and cliffs were his teeth, jaws and broken pieces of bones; his skull formed the heavens