Muspelheim

Muspellsheim, also Muspell ( Old Norse Muspellr, Muspellzheimr " world of Muspell " ), is in the creation story of the Norse mythology, a fiery region, which lies to the south, and forms the antithesis to the icy and dark Niflheim in the north.

In prehistoric times the heat Muspellsheims the ice melted Niflheim in Ginnungagap, from which the giant Ymir, the first being the world was formed. All celestial bodies, sun, moon and stars, created from the flying sparks Muspellsheims who fortified the gods in the sky.

Muspellsheim as area is only transmitted in Snorri Sturluson in the Prose Edda. Probably it is not a popular idea, but a self- creation Snorri. The underlying continental Germanic term " doomsday ( by fire ) " means roughly, appears to have been reinterpreted in Nordic time and personified as a giant Muspell, the Snorri equated with the fire giant Surtr and whose whereabouts he named after Muspell Muspellsheim.

Another reinterpretation of experiences in Snorri's cosmogony also has the connotation of Muspell, in its literal sense the corruption resonates through fire, which with him, however, into something positive ( a world of heat and light ) converts, probably according to a northern notion that the South is a world of salvation.