Q 01/05

What is the name of the immense tree at the center of the Norse cosmos?

A) Yggdrasil

B) Læraðr

C) Mímameiðr

D) Glasir

Answer · why

A) Yggdrasil

The Norns water it daily from the well of Urðr, and the gods hold their assemblies beneath it.

Q 02/05

According to the surviving Norse sources, how many worlds are there?

A) Twelve

B) Three

C) Seven

D) Nine

Answer · why

D) Nine

The sources never actually give a full list of the nine, so scholars have to reconstruct it from scattered mentions.

Q 03/05

Which realm do the gods inhabit, and which do humans?

A) Álfheim and Niflheim

B) Hel and Múspell

C) Asgard and Midgard

D) Vanaheim and Jötunheim

Answer · why

C) Asgard and Midgard

Midgard sits at the center of the cosmos, encircled by the ocean where the world serpent lies.

Q 04/05

Which Icelandic scholar wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century?

A) Egill Skallagrímsson

B) Snorri Sturluson

C) Sæmundr Sigfússon

D) Ari Þorgilsson

Answer · why

B) Snorri Sturluson

Snorri was a lawspeaker and politician as well as an author, and was assassinated in his cellar in 1241 on the orders of Norway's king.

Q 05/05

Which god hung himself upside-down on the world tree for nine days and nights to learn the runes?

A) Týr

B) Odin

C) Heimdall

D) Thor

Answer · why

B) Odin

He is also missing an eye, which he left in Mímir's well as the price of a drink of wisdom.