Asgard

• Population: 630,000
• Capital: None
• Ruler: Various petty kings
• Major cities: None (small villages)
• Resources: Game (musk ox, mammoth, bear, reindeer, moose, fox), mammoth ivory
• Imports: Steel weapons 
• Historical Equivalent: Vikings 
• Religion: Ymir

The nation of the Aesir, Asgard is situated east of Vanaheim and the Blue Mountains, west of Hyperborea and the putative River of Death Ice, and north of Cimmeria and the Eiglophian Mountains.

Asgard and Vanaheim together comprise the region known as Nordheim, analogous to the mysterious Thule of pre-Cataclysmic times. The high mountain regions are permanently glaciated, with the glaciers growing as the climate cools. In the southern lowlands, taiga forest covers much of the terrain. North of this lays the tundra, a soggy plain underlaid by permafrost.

The Aesir who populate this rugged land are a numerous and virile lot. A shade less bloodthirsty than their neighbors the Vanir, they nonetheless glory in warfare, wearing their famous horned helmets and swinging awesome battle-axes.

During their more peaceable moments, the Aesir support themselves by hunting abundant musk ox, mammoth, bear, reindeer, moose, fox, and the like. They augment their meat diet by gathering lingon-berries and other wild fruits in season. They have no agriculture. Each tribe of Asgard is ruled by a "king", from a timber-roofed Great Hall.