The first part of the Codex Regius preserves poems that narrate the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Old Norse mythological world as well as individual myths about gods concerning Norse deities.

The Prose Edda consists of a Prologue and three separate books: Gylfaginning, concerning the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Norse mythical world, Skáldskaparmál, a dialogue between Ægir, a supernatural figure connected with the sea, and Bragi, a god connected with skaldship, and Háttatal, a demonstration of verse forms used in Norse mythology.

In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (" mighty gap ") was the vast, primordial void that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe.

Ginnungagap appears as the primordial void in the Norse creation account, the Gylfaginning states:

The Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology.

Each question made to High, Just-As-High, and Third is about an aspect of the Norse mythology or its gods, and also about the creation and destruction of the world ( Ragnarök ).

Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Nordic gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology.

In it, one could argue, Tveitt seeks to establish a link between this world-its creation, cycle and dwellers-and the eternal battle between the benevolent heathen Norse gods and their opponents, the evil jotuns.

Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist.

The Norse creation myth tells how everything came into existence in the gap between fire and ice, and how the gods shaped the homeworld of humans.

In Norse mythology, before the creation of the world, it was the divine cow Audhumla who, through her licking of the cosmic salt ice, gave form to Buri, ancestor of the gods and grandfather of Odin.

However, in the original Norse myths and Hinduism, the cycle of destruction and creation is repeated indefinitely, thus offering no possibility of ultimate salvation ( Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 79 ; 239, note 14 to Chapter 9 ).

The interest in Old Norse subjects led to the creation of a special architecture in wood inspired by the Stave churches, and it was in Norway that the style had its largest impact.

Life under the Scottish earls — especially after the creation of the second line of Earls of Orkney — over time incorporated aspects of Scottish culture while still keeping the Norn language place and family names and other distinct aspects of Norse influence on the isles.

However, as with the rest of the Ring, Wagner's account of this apocalypse diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources.

The Old Norse Bartholomeus saga postola, an account of the life of Saint Bartholomew dating from the 13th century, mentions a " Queen Hel.

In Prologue, a euhemerized account of the origins of Norse mythology is provided, including that while Odin was in Saxony, Odin put three of his sons in charge of the area.

Some Slavic historians argue that the account of Rurik's invitation was borrowed by a pro-Scandinavian chronicler from a hypothetical Norse document.

: See also Ríg for the account in Norse mythology of the warrior Jarl or Ríg-Jarl presented as the ancestor of the class of warrior-nobles.

According to the same account, the Irish monks abandoned the country when the Norse arrived, or had left prior to their arrival.

One account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921 claims that Norse warriors were sometimes buried with enslaved women with the belief that these women would become their wives in Valhalla.

Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf ( lines 489-675 and 1491 – 1500 ), Dream of the Rood and Judith, Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Lokasenna as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the Heimskringla account of the funeral ale held by King Sweyn, or in the Fagrskinna.

Heyerdahl's intention was to prove the veracity of the account of Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century, about the origin of the Norse royal dynasties, and the pre-Christian Norse gods.

Snorri provides a euhemeristic account, in which he describes the Norse god Odin and some other Norse gods, the Æsir, as having been real people who emigrated from the area around the river Don to Scandinavia at the time of the Roman expansion into their old homeland.

Such stories also have counterparts in other Indo-European mythologies: the slaying of the serpent Vritra by Indra in Vedic religion, the battle between Thor and Jörmungandr in the Norse story of Ragnarok, the Greek account of the defeat of the Titan Typhon by Zeus.

Another version of the story of Waltharius and Hiltgunt appears in the Norse Thidreks saga, but in this account Gunther plays no part at all.

According to this account, the reason the Norse thought so was that these monks had left behind Irish books, bells and crosiers, among other things.

Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen ( early medieval Scandinavians ), are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas, Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan.

The original pronunciation is preserved in the names for the city in other languages such as Old English Difelin, Old Norse Dyflin, modern Icelandic Dyflinn and modern Manx Divlyn.

The earliest preserved descriptions of elves comes from Norse mythology.

Many of these sagas were written in Iceland, and most of them, even if they had no Icelandic provenance, were preserved there after the Middle Ages due to the Icelanders ' continued interest in Norse literature and law codes.

Icelandic has the best preserved inflectional system of the Norse languages and the Prose Edda was also written in old Icelandic.

The earliest preserved examples of Old Norse literature are the Eddic poems, the oldest of which may have been composed in early 9th century Norway drawing on the common Germanic tradition of alliterative verse.

The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.

Skaldic poetry can be traced to the earlier 9th century with Bragi Boddason and his Ragnarsdrápa, the oldest surviving Norse poem besides the poem preserved epigraphically on the Eggjum stone.

Odin, the chief god of the Norse, was associated with death by hanging, and a possible practice of Odinic sacrifice by strangling has some archeological support in the existence of bodies perfectly preserved by the acid of the Jutland ( later taken over by the Daner people ) peatbogs, into which they were cast after having been strangled.

As some other Dalecarlian vernaculars spoken north of the Lake Siljan, Elfdalian retains numerous old grammatical and phonological features that have not changed considerably since Old Norse and is considered to be the most conservative and best preserved vernacular within the Dalecarlian branch.

Most of the Old Norse poetry that survives was preserved in Iceland, but there are also 122 preserved poems in Swedish rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish.

Bósa saga ok Herrauds or " Saga of Bósi and Herraud " is a legendary saga written around 1300 preserved in three 15th century manuscripts relating the fantastic adventures of the two companions Herraud ( Old Norse Herrauðr ) and Bósi.

The phonological and grammatical systems inherited from Old Norse were relatively well preserved and did not experience any major changes.

However, the word's original Norse meaning has been preserved in loans into neighboring Finnic languages: Estonian arg and Finnish arka, both meaning " cowardly ".

Eymundar þáttr hrings is a short Norse saga, which is preserved in two versions.

In the collection of Old Norse prose-translations of Marie de France's lais – called Strengleikar ( Stringed Instruments ) – two lais with Arthurian content have been preserved, one of them being the " Chevrefoil ", translated as " Geitarlauf ".

* Óðrerir and Són, a vat in which the mead of poetry was preserved in Norse mythology

In some cases this gave alternations between two related forms, one with s-mobile and the other without, such as English steer, Icelandic stjór, Dutch stier (← * steuraz ← PIE * steuros with preserved ) vs. Limburgish deur, duur, Old Norse þjórr (← * þeuraz ← PIE * tauros with regularly shifted ).