Midgard is an old Germanic name for our world. Midgard means "middle enclosure". It is where the term "Middle Earth" comes from. The term is an English version of the Old Norse language.
Midgard
Reception in modern times
J. R. R. Tolkien, in his work The Lord of the Rings, which is heavily influenced by Germanic mythology and Beowulf, referred to the world comparable to Midgard as Middle Earth. The German author Wolfgang Hohlbein called one of his novels, in which he freely exploited components of Norse mythology, Midgard.
Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen use midgard in their contemporary cosmology The View from the Center of the Universe as a term to clarify the position of man in the universe. Man as mediator between macrocosm and microcosm has the task of opening up this connection with his consciousness.
Willibald Hentschel gave his human breeding plans the name Mittgart. Around Hentschel as founder there was a "Mittgart-Bund" and "Mittgartsiedlungen" for human breeding.
Another völkisch publishing house in the Weimar Republic called itself Mittgart-Verlag, with headquarters in Haan-Ellscheid, founder Guntram Erich Pohl. Here was published Neues Leben. Monatsschrift für nordisch-deutsches Wesen.
Max Robert Gerstenhauer wrote Mittgart's Verfall und Wiederaufstieg. Volume 1. Armanen Publishing House, 1937.
The oldest German role-playing game bears the name Midgard. The word is also often used to describe the virtual game world of computer games, including Dark Age of Camelot, Rune, Age of Mythology, Ragnarok Online.