Talk:Asgard
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Tokerboy, the location and relative positioning of Urd/Asgard is a deeply vexed question in the field of Norse cosmogeny:
In some descriptions one of Yggdrasil's roots extended into Asgard and under it, Urd's well. The gods were said to have court at the well every day riding there "up over Bifrost".
One of the problems with certain descriptions of the cosmology is why would the gods ride up over Bifrost if Urd's well was in Asgard? It seems logical that Urd's well was in the netherworld, that Asgard was in the branches of the world tree, and that the gods rode down Bifrost instead of up. user:sjc
- I'm not real sure, rereading my source, it's kind of ambiguous about where exactly everything was. Go ahead and change anything that isn't right, because I can't tell what this means exactly, or mention the difficulties in assigning spatial relationships with these kinds of things.
Wait. Did Hrimthurs build the wall or not?
"The walls surrounding Asgard were built by a giant (often mistakenly identified as Hrimthurs), in return for which he was to receive in payment the hand of Freya in marriage and the sun and the moon. This was agreed provided that the work was completed within six months. In order to avoid the payment, Loki lured away Hrimthurs' magic horse, Svadilfari, by transforming himself into a mare and luring the horse away. The job was not completed on time and the gods evaded the payment."