Giants

The Giants are a primordial people in Varg Vikernes’s account of human origins, where Norse myth is recast as a record of extraterrestrial creation and ancient racial conflict. They are described as early prototypes of Homo sapiens, and their jealousy of the gods’ creation of Aryan man becomes the cause of war on Atlantis.

Place in the Creation Narrative

Vikernes’s account gives the Giants a position between the gods and later humanity: they are neither the final human creation nor simply mythic adversaries, but primitive prototypes for what would become Homo sapiens. Their significance turns on the contrast between those prototypes and Aryan man, whom the gods create as a distinct, later form of humanity. The Giants’ jealousy makes that act of creation the point at which the origin story becomes a conflict narrative.

The Atlantean War and Its Aftermath

The war on Atlantis is aligned with the Norse myth in which Hymir sends his trolls to take revenge on Thor after Thor catches the Midgard Serpent. In Vikernes’s retelling, the mythic pattern of retaliation is recast as a war between the Giants and the gods’ Aryan creation. The conflict ends with Atlantis sinking beneath the ocean. The Aryans seek refuge on other continents and eventually mix with other human populations; Vikernes claims that only in Northern Europe did they survive as a pure race, describing himself as an example through his blonde hair, blue eyes, and long skull.

Narrative Significance

The Giants make a myth of divine creation serve as an origin story for racial hierarchy: their status as primitive prototypes sets them against the Aryan man, while their jealousy supplies the motive for the catastrophe that scatters the latter. The account thus transforms a familiar mythic conflict into a supposed prehistory of human difference and migration. These claims belong to Vikernes’s speculative interpretation of myth, not to an established account of human origins.