To understand their surroundings these simple yet adaptable steppe people would have had origin stories explaining where they came from, how the snowy southern mountains were formed and what lay beyond them in the exotic lands further south. These and the old civilisations on the fertile valleys away to the west would be a sourceContinue reading “The Bronze Age origins of Norse Mythology.”
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The Diverse Tribes of Middle World.
The Yamnaya in the early Bronze Age occupied the wide open grasslands between the Dniester and Ural rivers. Surrounding them were cultures quite different from their own. Some seemed older and more sophisticated living in large settlements and working metals others seemed less advanced living in forests as hunter-gatherers but all spoke languages that wereContinue reading “The Diverse Tribes of Middle World.”
Middle World in the Early Bronze Age.
By the early Bronze Age the lakes and forests of the north continued to be the home to hunter-gatherers, the surrounding mountains were exploited for metals and fertile regions along rivers had long been farmed with large settlements established over time in some places. Sophisticated agriculture such as terracing and wine production were to beContinue reading “Middle World in the Early Bronze Age.”
Yggdrasil and Middle World 