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Yggdrasil (from Old
Norse Yggdrasill) is an
immense and
central sacred tree in
Norse cosmology.
Around it
exists all else,
including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil...
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stags or
harts (male red deer) eat
among the
branches of the
world tree
Yggdrasill.
According to the
Poetic Edda, the
stags crane their necks upward to chomp...
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Prose Edda, Níðhǫggr is a
being which gnaws one of the
three roots of
Yggdrasill. It is
sometimes believed that the
roots are
trapping the
beast from the...
- and Skuld, who
weave the
threads of fate and tend to the
world tree,
Yggdrasill,
ensuring it
stays alive at the
center of the cosmos. The
origin of the...
- lover, whom he was
forced to kill. The
organization Cruxis is led by
Yggdrasill, a half-elf
whose ultimate goal is to turn all
people into
lifeless beings...
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Hoddmimir is
another name for Mimir, and that the two
survivors hide in
Yggdrasill."
Rudolf Simek theorizes that the
survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is "a...
- particular, he
carried messages between the
unnamed eagle at the top of
Yggdrasill and the wyrm Níðhöggr
beneath its roots. The red
squirrel used to be widely...
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rivers which Thor
wades through every day when he goes to
judgment by
Yggdrasill. The
source for this is a
strophe in Grímnismál
which is also
quoted in...
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Hoddmimir is
another name for Mimir, and that the two
survivors hide in
Yggdrasill."
Rudolf Simek theorizes that the
survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is "a...
- Læraðr
could therefore be "arranger of betrayal",
which would relate to
Yggdrasill as the
place of Odin's self-sacrifice.
Another reading is
sometimes suggested...
