When the universe was nothing but chaos, darkness, and confusion, there was a gigantic cleft, an abyss, in the center of everything. It was so deep that its bottom was inconceivable. Inside its cragged walls the temperature was very low. This abyss was called Ginnungagap.
Directly to the north of Ginnungagap was the realm of Niflheim, a dark world shrouded in continual mist. The spring Hvergelmir was in this twilight place, and from it flowed the eleven