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Yggdrasil

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Also known as Iggdrasil, Weltesche

thumb|17th century depiction of Yggdrasil

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Attestations
  • ''Poetic Edda''
  • ''Völuspá''
  • ''Hávamál''
  • ''Grímnismál''
  • ''Prose Edda''
  • Theories
  • Shamanic origins
  • Mímameiðr, Hoddmímis holt, and Ragnarök
  • Warden trees, Irminsul, and sacred trees
  • Modern influence
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

thumb|17th century depiction of Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil () is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yggdrasil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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