Yggdrasil

An illustration depicting Yggdrasil, by Oluf Olufsen Bagge, for 1847, Northern Antiquities, an English translation of the Prose Edda

Meaning

Proper Noun

An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.

Origin

Borrowed from Old Norse Yggdrasill; commonly accepted as being composed yggr + drasill, where “steed” refers to a hanging tree or possibly from *dʰer-.

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