Step 10 of 12 · The Making of the Worlds

Asgard (Ásgarðr)

Modern interpretation

Why this step

In Gylfaginning the sons of Borr build a city in the middle of the universe called Ásgarðr, where the gods and their kin live and from which they work wondrous things on the earth and in the heavens. The name reads roughly as the enclosure of the Æsir. The entry is plain that the sources say nothing more precise about where it lies than “in the middle”.

From the Lorebook

Home of the Æsir, the gods, and the walled stronghold they built.

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