It originally had 9 frozen rivers attached to it and was filled with ice, frost and snow. Niflheim means ‘Mist World’ and lies to the North of Ginnnungagap, the huge void from which the world grew. What is presented below is designed to inspire, present basic information and offer a starting point for individual creativity within the project inspired by the themes, characters and spirit of the myths and stories. I may well put out little mini-posts intermittently focusing on orality and poetic form as necessary. The project’s overall intention is to embrace orality, translation, storytelling and rhythm all of which are inspired by the origins of the oral tradition of the Norse Sagas. Month by month we will be building our own magical, contemporary norse world whilst exploring the themes of POWER, NATURE and RELIGION. They will not attempt to cover everything, and writers can embrace any other stories and characters within their writing which is not covered. These monthly posts will draw from a range of primary and secondary source materials and focus on selected gods, themes and stories that circle around the highlighted realm. Here we are in the middle of February, with the deadline for the poetry and writing for the 4th realm Nidavellir today! I shall be posting out more Jotunheim poems this week and next week, and then we’ll be onto Nidavellir. This month we are outlining the realm of Niflheim, and the deadline for all writing, poetry and mp3s for this realm is Thursday 12th March 2015. The Nine Realms 9 months, 19 poets and writers, 22 Artists, 3 composers, 1 Viking boat = a magical reworking of Norse Mythology for contemporary audiences Nifelheim
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