World mythology & recorded folktales500 entries / 10 collections
Reading journeys / 4 stops

Under the branches

A route through creation, world space, and prophecy.

1
Norse

A world made from Ymir

Follow the making of a world from a giant’s body and distinguish poetic hints from prose arrangement.

Read this stop →
2
Norse

Yggdrasil

Use the tree as a textual meeting point, not a modern map with fixed coordinates.

Read this stop →
3
Norse

Níðhöggr

Look below the familiar canopy at a creature whose roles vary with the poem.

Read this stop →
4
Norse

Ragnarök: destruction and renewal

End with destruction and renewal, noticing what changes between witnesses.

Read this stop →

After the last stop

Which detail changed when you returned to the source? Keep that question with you as you choose another route.

Choose another reading journey →