Yet it is not easy to pluck out the heart of its mystery; and the descriptions of certain ancient representatives of Yggdrasil do not lessen the difficulty.
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Yggdrasil
//ˈɪɡdɹəsɪl//
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21 translations across 18 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- Իգգդրասիլ name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- İqqdrasil name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Игдрасил name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Catalan
1 entries- Ígdrasil name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Danish
1 entries- Yggdrasil name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Dutch Low Saxon
1 entries- Jegdrasiel name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
French
4 entries- Ygdrasil name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
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Georgian
1 entries- იგდრასილი name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Greek
1 entries- Ύγκντρασιλ name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Icelandic
1 entries- Yggdrasils name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Japanese
1 entries- ユグドラシル name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Latvian
1 entries- Igdrasils name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Igdrasilas name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Old Norse
1 entries- Yggdrasill name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Persian
1 entries- اوگدراسیل name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Russian
1 entries- Иггдрасиль name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Swedish
1 entries- Yggdrasil name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Іґґдрасілль name (the world tree in Norse mythology)
Sample sentences
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With nostrils and legs akimbo, she towered over him like some human Yggdrasill, blotting out the sun.
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1996, Carolyne Larrington (editor and translator), The Seeress's Prophecy, The Poetic Edda, page 6, I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill, a high tree, soaked with shining loam; from there come the dews which fall in the valley, ever green, it stands over the well of fate.
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In Norse mythology, for example, the World Tree, or Yggdrasil, connected the nine existences that straddled the worlds of gods and men with its mighty roots. Yggdrasil was reputedly a gigantic ash tree (and was the central feature of Norse cosmology), around the base of which the serpent Níôhöggr had twisted its body.
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