When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Yggdrasil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

    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.

  3. Tree of life - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life

    The tree of life connects the upper world, middle world and underworld. It is also imagined as the "white creator lord" (yryn-al-tojon), [50] thus synonymous with the creator deity, giving rise to different worlds. The world tree or tree of life is an important symbol in Turkic mythology. [51] It is a common motif in carpets.

  4. Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dáinn,_Dvalinn,_Duneyrr...

    This drawing made by a 17th-century Icelander shows the four stags on the World Tree. Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four 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 at the branches. The ...

  5. World tree - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_tree

    The Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of life are both components of the Garden of Eden story in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. According to Jewish mythology, in the Garden of Eden there is a tree of life or the "tree of souls" that blossoms and produces new souls, which fall into the Guf, the Treasury of Souls. [52]

  6. Norns - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns

    The Norns (Old Norse: norn, plural: nornir) are deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies. [1] In the Völuspá, the three primary Norns Urðr (Wyrd), Verðandi, and Skuld draw water from Urðarbrunnr to nourish Yggdrasill, the tree at the center of the cosmos, and prevent it from rot. [2]

  7. Trees in mythology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees_in_mythology

    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

  8. Veðrfölnir and eagle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veðrfölnir_and_eagle

    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.

  9. Níðhöggr - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Níðhöggr

    In historical Viking society, níð was a term for a social stigma, implying the loss of honor and the status of a villain. Thus, its name might refer to its role as a horrific monster in its action of chewing the corpses of the inhabitants of Niflheim : those guilty of murder, adultery, and oath-breaking, thus something akin to "Malice Biter".