Ask and Embla

Then spoke Gangleri: ‘A great deal it seems to me they had
achieved when earth and heaven were made and sun and stars
were put in position and days were separated — and where did the
people come from who inhabit the world?’

Then High replied: ‘As Bor’s sons walked along the sea shore,
they came across two logs and created people out of them. The
first gave breath and life, the second consciousness and movement,
the third a face, speech and hearing and sight; they gave
them clothes and names. The man was called Ask, the woman
Embla, and from them were produced the mankind to whom the
dwelling-place under Midgard was given. After that they made
themselves a city in the middle of the world which is known as
Asgard. We call it Troy.


- Prose Edda, Gylfaginning