Norse Ymir Blood Flood

myth:norse_ymir_blood_flood

At the very making of the world, when the sons of Bor slew the primeval giant Ymir, so much blood gushed from him that it drowned almost all the frost-giants; only Bergelmir and his wife escaped, riding out the red flood on a hollowed vessel, to father the giants anew. A flood not of water but of a giant's blood, at the dawn of things. — Norse myth (Edda)