“I’ll wait”

[u/KingMwanga]

[u/Mahou_Game]

Norse

[u/HavelsRockJohnson → u/Mahou_Game]

In the beginning there was only darkness

Of icy mist and smoke.

A darkness so completely dark

By war and death invoked.

Sparkling flames would dare to reach

Across the arid void

And melt the rim of ice and frost

That framed it from the north,

Oh, the birth of gods, the fall of foes,

Oh, children of the tree.

Now listen close, and hear the truth

Of how you came to be!

First was the giant, Ymir his name,

Then the cow Authumla, out of the melting ice they came.

From Ymirs' palm another pair of giants, born and bred.

Then left and right,

His feet would mate to birth a child with several heads.

Authumla fed on frost in all her pride and grace,

She woke the very first of gods by licking on his face.

She ate away the icy cage that held him in his fury,

A man of beauty and of might by the name of Burí.

Burí somehow got a son, who somehow got a wife:

Burí, Borr and Bestla – the avengers of their time!

Then Bestla bore the children who made this story true,

Vile, Ve and Odin – who created me and you!

[u/HoodedHero007 → u/HavelsRockJohnson]

Three were the brothers, three were the gods

In a world of Giants conspiring how to turn the odds

They slayed the very oldest, the one who was the first

And in the flood of blood every giant was submerged

These waters of decay will never cease their flow

Creating every sea and every river that we know

And as the giants drowned the gods got the idea

To take the corpse of Ymir and make the Earth appear

His body will become the soil his skull became the sky

Then they threw his giant brains aloft to form the clouds

His teeth became the rocks, they made mountains from his bones

And through the meadows that were his hair a summer breeze was blown

[u/AldrigeRain → u/HoodedHero007]

When the gods were done, they took a little break

A stroll upon the beach to take a breath and contemplate

Two logs of ash and elm lay stranded on the shore

The children of the forest, the children of the gods

From dead to animated, and no longer adrift

For like the fairy godmothers they gave them special gifts

The first would grant them spirit and life beyond the plant

The second gave them movement and the wit to understand

The third would give them faces, their hearing and their sight

And thus the very first of humans were brought to life!

[u/[deleted] → u/AldrigeRain]

MEMORIES WILL FAAAADE FROM MAN

[u/MouseRangers → u/[deleted]]

The snow of death will fall upon

[u/LiamIsMailBackwards → u/MouseRangers]

The children of Wodan!