Text · Norse · Reykjavík
Poetic Edda (Völuspá) & Prose Edda (Gylfaginning)
Walking the shore, three gods found two trees and shaped the first man and woman from them.
oral earlier; Codex Regius c.1270; Snorri c.1220
Which version did the people who first told it believe?
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