![]() ![]() The most common list you will see of nine realms in movies, video games, blog posts, and so forth is as follows: Niflheim, Muspelheim, Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Svartalfheim, and Hel/Helheim. So with that out of the way, I’ll provide a traditional list of nine realms as typically presented in popular media and then talk about how the sources actually use the phrase níu heima. It’s the closest thing we have in English that matches the ambiguity in heimr. This is why we so commonly see the word translated as “realm”. It’s just a cohesive place of something, big or small. It could also refer to something as small as your own house. There is nothing implicit in heimr implying that it must refer to a huge location like an entire planet or extra-spatial dimension, although it could. It can mean homes, worlds, countries, lands, territories, etc. Heima (singular heimr), is more ambiguous. “Nine realms” is translated from the Old Norse phrase “ níu heima”. I’ll enumerate these in a moment but first let’s talk about how this phrase is being translated. There is also one mention of “the ninth realm” and one mention of “nine heavens”, both of which exist only in the Prose Edda. The Prose Edda is, above all, a medieval scholarly work so, although it appears Snorri was doing his best to explain his ancestors’ mythology correctly, it is, after all, his ancestors’ mythology and the Prose Edda very likely contains a few mistakes, a few inventions, and a bit of accidental Christian bias.īetween these two sources, the phrase “nine realms” shows up three times. The Prose Edda is a guide to pagan-era poetry written (probably) by a 13th-century Christian Icelandic scholar named Snorri Sturluson who recounted myths he knew in order to explain the references to those myths that show up in old poetry. The Poetic Edda is a collection of poems, most of which can be linguistically dated to having been composed during the Norse pagan period although they were physically written down later. If you aren’t already aware, there are two of them, namely the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. These “Eddas” are our main sources for Norse mythology. Well, let’s look at what the sources say. But why should you trust me over a big-name show that is “a century in the making” and “ for the first time collected the greatest myths of the Norse Eddas and woven them into one epic saga”? And yet here I am telling you this is a misconception. ![]() ![]() Most recently, Spotify released a sponsored podcast called Thor & Loki that, within it’s one-and-a-half minute introduction, makes reference to “the nine realms” and claims that “all worlds are branches on Yggdrasill”. It seems these “nine realms” are incorporated into virtually every piece of popular media dealing with Norse mythology that has been produced within my lifetime at least. “The nine realms of Norse mythology” is one of the biggest and most common misconceptions about our source material that exists. Rules are subject to change at the mod team's discretion. Sidebar last updated on August 22nd, 2023. The modern day Nordic countries and other locations pertinent to the Viking age. General history, religion, linguistics and culture. Verið velkomin! - Related subreddits - Directly related subreddits. Let us know if our spam filter has caught your submission! Directly messaging individual moderators may result in a ban. Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL./r/Norse is a subreddit for academic discussion of Norse and Viking history, mythology, language, art and culture.ĭo NOT private message or use reddit chat to contact moderators about moderator actions. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.ĭetails: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. Runtime Error Server Error in '/' Application.
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