Almighty God

Also known as: God · Role: creator · First appears: Younger Edda · Foreword · Part 1

Life events

In Snorri's Foreword, Almighty God created heaven and earth and made Adam and Eve, from whom the races descended.(Younger Edda · Foreword · Part 1)
- With: Adam Eve
- “In the beginning Almighty God created heaven and earth, and all things that belong to them, and last he made two human beings, from whom the races are descended (Adam and Eve)”
In Snorri's Foreword, Almighty God drowned the world in a flood, sparing those in the ark with Noah.(Younger Edda · Foreword · Part 1)
- With: Noah
- “God drowned the world in the flood, and all that was quick in the world, except those who were in the ark with Noah.”
In Snorri's Foreword, Almighty God confused the builders' tongues, frustrating their attempt to build a tower reaching heaven.(Younger Edda · Foreword · Part 1 · 📍 Sennar)
- “And the same God, who is almighty, and who might have struck down all their work in the twinkling of an eye, and made themselves turn into dust, still preferred to frustrate their purpose by making them realize their own littleness, in that none of them should understand what the other talked; and thus no one knew what the other commanded, and one broke what the other wished to build up, until they came to strife among themselves, and therewith was frustrated, in the beginning, their purpose of building a tower.”

with Adam (created) “In the beginning Almighty God created heaven and earth, and all things that belong to them, and last he made two human beings, from whom the races are descended (Adam and Eve), and their children multiplied and spread over all the world.”
with Eve (created) “In the beginning Almighty God created heaven and earth, and all things that belong to them, and last he made two human beings, from whom the races are descended (Adam and Eve), and their children multiplied and spread over all the world.”

Extracted from the original text of The Eddas. Made with Rho MD.