GODS AND MYTHS OF EUROPE (Yggdrasill the World Tree & Ymir the Giant ‘Creator.’) An Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson, famed for his scholarly account of the gods gave us the book, PROSE EDDA. Unfortunately, you may not contact this author, even by email: he wrote his account in Europe’s early Christian era, about 1220. He wrote at a time when Christianity was becoming dominant among medieval Europeans, and Snorri anticipated a destruction of all the worlds, as in the account of Northern... Sign in to see full entry.