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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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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