Embla
First appears: Elder Edda · The Vala's Prophecy · Part 1
In the Vala’s Prophecy, Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur gave Embla and Ask their qualities: “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.” In the Fooling of Gylfe, Bor’s sons made Embla and Ask from trees at Midgard, clothed and named them, and gave them a dwelling-place there; from them all mankind is descended.
Relationship record
Life events
- Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur gave Ask and Embla spirit, sense, blood, and goodly colour.(Elder Edda · The Vala's Prophecy · Part 1)
- Bor’s sons made Ask and Embla from two trees and gave them a dwelling-place.(Younger Edda · The Fooling of Gylfe · Chapter V · The Creation (continued) · 📍 Midgard)
- With: Ask
- “These trees they took up and made men of them. The first gave them spirit and life; the second endowed them with reason and power of motion; and the third gave them form, speech, hearing and eyesight. They gave them clothes and names; the man they called Ask, and the woman Embla. From them all mankind is descended, and a dwelling-place was given them under Midgard.”
Elder Edda · The Vala's Prophecy · Part 1
- with Odin (created) “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.”
- with Hoenir (created) “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.”
- with Lodur (created) “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.”
- patron: Odin “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.”
- patron: Hoenir “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.”
- patron: Lodur “Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.”
Younger Edda · The Fooling of Gylfe · Chapter V · The Creation (continued)
- with Bor (created; Bor's sons made Embla) “The first gave them spirit and life; the second endowed them with reason and power of motion; and the third gave them form, speech, hearing and eyesight. They gave them clothes and names; the man they called Ask, and the woman Embla.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Eddas. Made with Rho MD.