The Norse cosmos began from ice meeting fire in a void

Evidence

In the beginning, the seeress sang, there was neither earth nor sky nor sea — only Ginnungagap, the great yawning emptiness. To the north lay Niflheim, a world of ice and freezing mist; to the south, Muspelheim, a world of fire and burning sparks. Where the ice of the north met the fire of the south in the middle of the void, the ice began to melt and drip, and from the melting drops life first stirred: the giant Ymir, and a great cow, Audhumla, whose milk fed him. — , A Year of World Stories, 13400

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to other creation-from-dual-elements myths — the fiery-frozen origins parallel Zoroastrian and other cosmogonies.