Yggdrasil
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse Yggdrasill. Commonly accepted as being composed yggr (“terrible”) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree.
Proper noun [edit]
Yggdrasil
- The World Tree in Norse mythology. The great ash tree.
- Poetic Edda, first poem, stanza 2
- "I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill,
a high tree, soaked with shining loam;
from there come the dews which fall in the valley,
ever green, it stands over the well of fate."
- "I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill,
- Puckoon, by Spike Milligan. Chapter 1. p.1
- "... nostrils and legs akimbo, she towered over him like some human Yggdrasill, blotting out the sun."
- Poetic Edda, first poem, stanza 2
