Bevan Thomas<p>After the Norse god Odin and his brothers killed the giant Ymir and created the Earth from his corpse, they discovered huge maggots crawling through Ymir's flesh. The gods turned the maggots into the first dwarves, who still prefer to live underground (in Ymir's body).<br>🎨 Lorenz Frølich</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MythologyMonday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Norse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norse</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Viking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Viking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Dwarf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fairy</span></a></p>