Norse PantheonRealm
Asgard
One of the Nine Worlds and home to the Aesir tribe of gods, connected to Midgard by the rainbow bridge Bifrost.
About Asgard
Aesir yard
Snorri's Gylfaginning builds Asgard as the gods' enclosed burg, with Valhalla, twelve seats, and a high-seat for Odin. The Poetic Edda names individual halls (Valaskjalf, Gladsheim, Sessrumnir) more often than a single city-plan. There is no pagan temple called Asgard; the word is a mythic compound. Bifrost reaches it. At Ragnarok Surtr burns it. Treat Snorri as a thirteenth-century organizer of older stanzas, not as an eyewitness map.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda, Gylfaginning
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