Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness") was the vast chasm that existed between
Niflheim and
Muspelheim before creation in
Norse mythology. To the north of Ginnungagap lay the intense cold of
Niflheim, to the south the insufferable heat of
Muspelheim. At the beginning of time, the two met in the Ginnungagap, and where the heat met the frost, and the frost drops melted, the drops quickened into life in the form of the giant
Ymir, the father of all
Frost giants
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