world-ash

See also: world ash

English

Alternative forms

• world ash

Etymology

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Noun

world-ash

1. (Norse mythology and Germanic paganism) Yggdrasil.
   • 1993, Bernard King, The elements of the Runes, Thorsons Element, →ISBN, page 95:

     Ash is a strongly runic tree by implication, the world-ash Yggdrasil being the tree from which Odin hung in order to obatin the runes.

   • 1988, David A. White, The turning wheel: a study of contracts and oaths in Wagner's ring, page 108:

     This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree.

Anagrams

• Shardlow