Borr and the giantess Bestla produced three sons — Odin, Vili, and Vé — who together slew Ymir and shaped the cosmos from his body.
While Odin wandered far from Asgard, Vé took Frigg as his own alongside his brother Vili, sharing rule of the gods until Odin's return.
Odin, Vili, and Vé slew the primordial giant Ymir and fashioned the cosmos from his corpse — his flesh became earth, blood became sea, bones became mountains, skull became sky, and eyebrows became Midgard's walls.
Odin, Vili, and Vé found two driftwood logs on the seashore and shaped them into the first humans — Ask and Embla — breathing life, wit, and warmth into them before setting them in Midgard.
⚠ The Völuspá names the creating trio as Odin, Hoenir, and Lóðurr, not Odin, Vili, and Vé. Whether Lóðurr is another name for Vé (or Loki) remains debated; Snorri's Gylfaginning may have substituted his own genealogy for the older names.
After slaying the primordial giant Ymir, Odin and his brothers Vili and Vé fashioned Midgard from his flesh, raised mountains from his bones, and set his skull as the vault of the sky.
The Æsir are the principal tribe of Norse gods who dwell in Asgard, including both native members and Vanir hostages received after the Æsir-Vanir War, as catalogued in Gylfaginning.
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