Germanian became Christians

[Sigurd]

I had hopes for finding something on the web reflecting the things I said…
I found one image that reflects this which in my opinion was the popular “world” view of the people of the Viking age and still is taught in Norse classes at secondary school.


Notice that I use quotation marks on the word world here and in my previous post. This is because I am using the word world in a light sense and should not be considered as contradicting the nine worlds of Snorre Sturlason.
It is the popular grouping of realms and levels.
It is to these worlds the dead will go; Asgard for the good and valiant, Helheim for the unlucky and fate-doomed, some believed that they would continue in Midtgard as daudingar (ghosts) or dwell as skrømt in Utgard if you had allegiances with that sort of creatures.

All said and done, this is mythology and is by definition hearsay or folklore and will without doubt come in several versions or variations.
I once read one person’s thought product on the matter which I thought at the moment was quite interesting.
I can’t remember if he was a student of religious history or if he was a professor of the same subject.
He postulated that Utgard was in fact Denmark and the trolls (giants) were goth.

[edit]:Now this is food for thought and will fit nicely in with your work - Kraxis.

He said that the goth never pronounced the ‘g’ like ‘g’ but more like a ‘j’. Hence gotun (goter pl.) became jotun and the place of gotun became Jotunheim.
Gotland became Jutland and later Jylland and so forth.
He further postulated that the different types of creatures were in fact just other ethnic people and that Utgard was the “world” outside what the Norse considered their “world” but all realms were in Midtgard.