Branching Out on the World Tree
Protected by a massive boarder fence made from a giants eyebrows, this middle realm on Yggdrasil is the everyday home of humanity.
What is Midgard?
Who is Thor?
half of the warriors who die bravely in battle are chosen by the Valkyries to spend their afterlife drinking and fighting in this great hall of Odin?
What is Valhalla?
considered the ultimate defense of Asgard, this legendary giant-crushing weapon never misses its mark and magically flies back to the hand of those who throw it.
The trickster god Loki is actually the mother of this magical, eight-legged horse that serves as Odin's personal steed.
What is Sleipnir?
To literally decipher the magic of the universe, Odin hung himself from the World Tree for nine days and nights, staring into the depths until he perceived this magical alphabet.
What are the Runes?
At the top of the World Tree, Yggdrasil sits this divine, walled fortress realm, the exclusive home of the Aesir Gods.
What is Asgard?
Who is Freyja?
You'll know Ragnarok i finally starting when the world experiences "Fimbulwinter," a brutal, unrelenting one of these seasons that lasts for three straight years.
What is winter?
forged by the sons of Ivaldi, this magical spear belongs to the Allfather Odin and is heavily enchanted with runes so that it never stops or misses its target once thrown.
What is Gungnir?
Eclipses in the Norse world were a terrifying omen that these two giant bests temporarily caught up to the sun and moon they constantly chase.
What are the wolves Skoll & Hati?
Loki cracked the code to defeating the supposedly invincible god Baldr by discovering his one secret vulnerability was this holiday plant?
What is mistletoe?
Connecting the human realm to the realm of the gods, this shimmering, burning rainbow bridge is closely guarded by the Aesir God Heimdall.
What is the Bifrost?
This "Allfather" of the Aesir gods famously plucked out his own eye and threw it into Mimir's well just to gain a drink of cosmic wisdom.
Who is Odin?
According to prophecy, the army of the dead will sale to the final battle on Naglfar, a horrifying giant ship constructed entirely out of this body part of dead men?
What are fingernails, and or toenails?
Crafted by the dwarven brothers Brokkr and Sindri, this legendary golden arm ring miraculously drops eight exact copies of itself every ninth night.
What is Draupnir?
This trouble making red ssquirrel spends all of his time running up and down the trunk of the World Tree, carrying insults between the eagle at the top and the dragon at the bottom.
What is Ratatoskr?
After slaying the dragon Fafnir and accidentally tasting its blood, the hero Sigurd cracked the code of nature and could suddenly understand the language of these animals, who warned him of a betrayal.
What are birds?
Thor spends much of his time traveling to this harsh, mountainous realm to smash the skulls of its massive, frosty, and rocky inhabitants.
What is Jotunheim?
With hearing sharp enough to hear grass grow and eyesight that pierces the dark, this Aesir god stands constant guard at the Bifrost bridge.
Who is Heimdall?
in one of Ragnarok's most famous destined matchups, the Allfather Odin leads the champions of Valhalla into battle, only to be swallowed whole by this massive, monstrous offspring of Loki?
Reforged by a dwarven smith from the shattered shards of his father's blade, the legendary hero Sigurd used this mighty sward to slay the dragon Fafnir.
What is Gram?
When traveling, Thor's chariot is pulled by two magical ones of theses horned animals. Which he can miraculously cook and eat for dinner, then resurrect them the next morning using his hammer.
What are the goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjostr?
To get out of n unwanted marriage contract for his daughter, Thor challenged an all-knowing dwarf to a trivia and riddle contest, keeping him taking all night until this natural event, turned the dwarf into stone.
What is the sunrise?
Before Yggdrasil even existed, sparks from this primordial realm of fire melted the cosmic ice to create the very first life forms.
What is Muspelheim?
After the Aesir-Vanir war, this Vanir god of the sea and wind was sent to Asgard as a hostage alongside his famous twins, Freyr and Freyja.
Who is Njord?
What is Jormungandr?
When regular iron chains failed, the dwarves forged this magical, silk-like ribbon out of impossible things, like the sound of a cat's footfall and the breath of a fish, to finally bind the giant wolf Fenrir.
what is Gleipnir?
Before the gods existed, this massive primeval bovine sustained the first frost giant with rivers of milk.
What is the cow Audumbala?
Odin used disguises, aliases, and three nights of romance with a giantess just to drink this magical, stolen beverage that grants the drinker the gift of ultimate scholarship and verse.
What is the Mead of Poetry?