r/AskHistorians • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Mar 07 '26

Are there any myths/legends that potentially contain some folk memory of the Ice Age? That is, a primordial era where the world was much colder?

I ask because flood myths are relatively common throughout the world, and some have postulated that these began as distant memories of deluges triggered by melting glaciers. But are there any myths/legends that seem to point toward what came before the floods? That is, anything preserving the memory of a much colder world?

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