Borr

Stories tagged Borr:

• The Story of the God Bestla Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the time when giants ruled the emerging world and gods were yet to be born, there lived among the frost-giants a daughter whose beauty was matched only by her wisdom. Her name was Bestla, and she was daughter to Bolthorn, a giant of great learning who knew the secrets of the wind and the language of the stones.

  Unlike many of her kin, who delighted in chaos and conflict, Bestla possessed a gentle heart and a mind that sought understanding rather than dominion. While other giants hurled boulders and roared challenges across the void, she would sit quietly listening to the songs that ice made when it cracked, or watching the patterns that frost painted on stone.

• The Story of the God Borr Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the very beginning, when ice and fire first met across the great void, when the giant Ymir walked alone in the endless twilight, there came forth from the marriage of elements a being who would father gods. His name was Borr, and though the skalds speak less of him than of his mighty sons, without him there would be no Asgard, no Midgard, no stories at all.

  Borr was born from Buri, the first god, who had been licked from the primordial ice by Audhumla, the great cow. Where Buri was the spark of divine consciousness in a world of giants and chaos, Borr became its foundation—solid, reliable, strong enough to support the weight of all the gods who would come after.