Publisher's Synopsis
Initially, there were two Suns and two Moons, one Sun and one Moon different from the ones we see now. Its name was Sol, and its name was Mani. However, behind each Sol and Mani, a wolf always followed. Finally, the wolves caught up with them and devoured Sol and Mani. A dark and cold world followed.
Those were the days of the Gods, Odin and Thor, Hödur and Baldur, Tyr and Heimdall, Vidar and Vali, and Loki, the doer of a good deed. In addition, there were the beautiful Goddesses Frigga, Freya, Nanna, Iduna, and Sif. However, when the Sun and Moon were destroyed, so were all the Gods, except Baldur, who had died before that time, Vidar and Vali, sons of Odin, and Modi and Magni, sons of Thor.
Men and women lived in the world at that time, too. The world experienced terrible things before the Sun and Moon were devoured, and the Gods were destroyed. The snow fell on the Earth'sEarth's four corners and continued to fall for three seasons. Then the winds came and blew everything away. Furthermore, the people of the world who had survived the snow, the cold, and the winds fought each other, killing one another until all the people were destroyed.
At that time, there was another green and beautiful earth. Although forests, hills, and habitations were leveled by the terrible winds. The fire then engulfed the land. Sunlight and moonlight were devoured. The Gods were doomed. In addition, all of these things occurred during the time of Ragnarök, the Gods' Twilight.
A new Sun and Moon appeared and traveled through the heavens. They were more beautiful than Sol and Mani, and no wolves chased after them. In Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods, Odin had hidden them and left them to sleep. In a deep forest, a woman has not been burned by the fire, and a man has woken up.
Lifthrasir was the woman's name, and Lif was the man's. Children of their children made new Earth'sEarth's people, and their children made the children of their children. There were also left Vidar and Vali, the sons of Odin, and Modi and Magni, the sons of Thor; on the new Earth, Vidar and Vali found tablets that the older Gods had written on and left for them, tablets describing everything that had happened before Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods.
Also, the people who lived after Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods, were not troubled by the terrible beings who had wreaked destruction on the world, upon men and women, and who had waged war on the Gods from the very beginning.
