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Surtr
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The fire giant who guarded the world's edge before it existed, and will burn it down at the end.
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Where Ymir has an origin, Surtr has none. He is already there: a fire giant standing guard at the border of Muspellheim since before the ordered cosmos began, waiting for the day he leads the sons of Muspell against the gods and burns the nine worlds to ash.
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Sources
- Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda: Gylfaginning (Iceland, c. 1220)
- Poetic Edda: Völuspá, stanzas 51-53
- Surtshellir archaeological surveys (Iceland)
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