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Ginnungagap

[ gin-oong-gah-gahp ]

noun

Scandinavian Mythology.
  1. a primordial void, filled with mists, existing between Niflheim and Muspelheim.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ginnungagap1

From Old Norse, perhaps literally, magical gap
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Example Sentences

The brothers were trapped forever in Ginnungagap, the vast gap between the fire and the mist.

Ve and Vili and Odin looked at each other and spoke of what was needful to do, there in the void of Ginnungagap.

The rivers of the mist world flowed into the void, which was called Ginnungagap, the “yawning gap.”

One of them extends to the Æsir, another to the Frost-giants in that very place where was formerly Ginnungagap, and the third stands over Niflheim, and under this root, which is constantly gnawed by Nidhögg, is Huergelmir.

The words in my head were not Chimborazo and Cotopaxi, but Ginnungagap, Yggdrasil and Ragnarök.

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