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Yggdrasil

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The named world-tree of Norse cosmology. The ordinary tree and a generic “world tree” slogan are not this ash.

Norse tradition

  • Yggdrasil appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning presents Yggdrasil as the ash that stands among the worlds, with roots toward the living and the dead. A named Norse cosmology-tree, not a generic world-axis imported from elsewhere.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.