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/
Synonyms for "yggdrasil" (6 found)
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axis mundicentral hub
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cosmic tree
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interconnected hubmythical treeworld tree
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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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