The Voluspo contains a catalogue of these "forebears of Lofar," some of whom "sought a home in the fields of sand," while others made their home in a golden hall in Nidavellir. Four of them were placed at the cardinal points and charged with holding up the vault of the sky. In the Poetic Eddas, they are said to have risen "out of Brimir's blood and the legs of Blain," while Snorri states that they grew from maggots crawling in Ymir's corpse. Two of them, Fjalar and Galar, created the mead of poetry, and Freya slept with four of them to obtain Brisingamen. Sometimes identified with the dark elves, FTP name this race of master smiths in Norse m
The Voluspo contains a catalogue of these "forebears of Lofar," some of whom "sought a home in the fields of sand," while others made their home in a golden hall in Nidavellir. Four of them were placed at the cardinal points and charged with holding up the vault of the sky. In the Poetic Eddas, they are said to have risen "out of Brimir's blood and the legs of Blain," while Snorri states that they grew from maggots crawling in Ymir's corpse. Two of them, Fjalar and Galar, created the mead of poetry, and Freya slept with four of them to obtain Brisingamen. Sometimes identified with the dark elves, FTP name this race of master smiths in Norse myth.
The Voluspo contains a catalogue of these "forebears of Lofar," some of whom "sought a home in the fields of sand," while others made their home in a golden hall in Nidavellir.