The Élivágar poured their venomous waters into Ginnungagap, where they froze into layers of poisoned rime that filled the primordial void from the north, meeting the sparks and heat streaming from Muspelheim in the south.
The Élivágar flow from the spring Hvergelmir in Niflheim according to the Gylfaginning. Hvergelmir is the source of all the primordial rivers whose frozen rime filled Ginnungagap.
The Élivágar originate in Niflheim and carry their icy, venomous waters outward into Ginnungagap. Niflheim's primordial cold is channeled through these eleven rivers.
The venomous streams of the Élivágar froze into layers of rime in Ginnungagap, and when the heat of Muspelheim thawed that poisoned ice, the quickening drops took shape as Ymir, the first of all living beings.
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