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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 is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is the world tree. [10] Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central and considered very
An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge 17th-century depiction of the tree of life in Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan Confronted animals, here ibexes, flank a tree of life, a very common motif in the art of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean Breastfeeding before an Egyptian "sycamore"
An illustration from a 17th-century Icelandic manuscript shows a hawk, Veðrfölnir, on top of an eagle on top of a tree, Yggdrasil. In Norse mythology, Veðrfölnir (Old Norse "storm pale", [1] "wind bleached", [2] or "wind-witherer" [3]) is a hawk sitting between the eyes of an unnamed eagle that is perched on top of the world tree Yggdrasil.
Yggdrasil is a tree central to the Norse concept of the cosmos. The tree's branches extend into various realms, and various creatures dwell on and around it. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their things, traditional governing assemblies .
Yggdrasil, the World Ash of Norse mythology. The world tree, with its branches reaching up into the sky, and roots deep into the earth, can be seen to dwell in three worlds—a link between heaven, the earth, and the underworld, uniting above and below. This great tree acts as an axis mundi, supporting or holding up the cosmos.
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In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse, generally considered to mean "drill-tooth" [1] or "bore-tooth" [2]) is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the eagles perched atop it and the serpent Níðhöggr who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree.