Asgard

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. There the gods and their descendants
lived and there took place as a result many events and developments
both on earth and aloft. In the city there is a seat called
Hlidskialf, and when Odin sat in that throne he saw over all
worlds and every man’s activity and understood everything he
saw. His wife was called Frigg Fiorgvin’s daughter, and from them
is descended the family line that we call the Æsir race, who have
resided in Old Asgard and the realms that belong to it, and that
whole line of descent is of divine origin. And this is why he can be
called All-father, that he is father of all the gods and of men and of
everything that has been brought into being by him and his power.
The earth was his daughter and his wife. Out of her he begot the
first of his sons, that is Asa-Thor. He was possessed of power and
strength. As a result he overcomes all living things.


- Prose Edda, Gylfaginning