Name Of The Dwarves Research Paper

After the Norns invaded the gods holy place, they once again returned to their thrones at Urd’s Well to make a decision regarding dwarves. “Whom should they make the lord of the dwarfs out of Ymir’s blood, and his swarthy limbs.” They were creating a race of living beings called dwarves out of Ymir’s rotting corpse. According to myths other than this one, the dwarves were created from maggots that were crawling around Ymir’s flesh. Being maggots, they were made smaller than modern day men and because of their life of crawling around under skin and flesh, the new race of dwarves chose to live in mountains and under rocks. They seem to be strongly compared to maggots in other myths while this particular version is vague about their actual creation.

These dwarves were of Durin’s lineage and the names that are particularly interesting are, Bifur, Bafur, Bombur, Nori, Thorin, Thrainn,, Thror, Fili, Kili, and Oakenshield. These names are extremely popular in pop culture of present day and for that last 50 to 100 years. The famous Lord of the Rings Series, preceded by “The Hobbit” all have these names within the texts. The dwarves in Bilbo Baggins party all are named in this

The priestess seems to be done recounting the creation of the world and again speaks to the audience about this tree. She says, “An ash I know standing, ‘tis called Yggdrasil, a high tree sprinkled with shining drops; comes dews therefrom which fall in the dales; it stands ever green o’er the well of Weird.” This stanza describes again Urd’s Well, or the Well of Fate where the gods gathered to make their decisions. It is interesting how the Yggrasil, like the first man, are both made from an Ash tree. It’s significant because the Yggdrasil is considered the “Tree of Life” and the first life was brought about by the same material. This could be another reason why the tree was so central to Norse mythology because it figuratively and literally represented life on Earth. The word ‘weird’ is supposed to be written as Wyrd, which is a word meaning fate. It continues by saying, “There are the Maidens, all things knowing, three in the hall which stands ‘neath the Tree. One is named ‘Weird’, the second ‘Being who grave on tablets but ‘Shall’ the third. they lay down laws, they choose out life, they speak the doom of the sons of men.” This is a very dark ending to the myth. The three maidens from Jotunheim remain in the roots of the Yggdrasil and there’s apparently no stopping them. Their names, as well as their association with negative things doesn’t seem to bode well for the men on Earth, especially since they