#inktober day 13 #ash "#TheAshYggdrasil" (1886) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense $mythicaltree that plays a central role in #Norsecosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is center to the cosmos and considered very holy. The #gods go to #Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their things, traditional governing assemblies. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well #Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring #Hvergelmir, and another to the well #Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the dragon #Níðhöggr, an #unnamed eagle, and the stags #Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór. Conflicting scholarly theories have been proposed about the etymology of the name Yggdrasill, the possibility that the tree is of another species than ash, its connection to the many sacred trees and groves in Germanic #paganism and #mythology, and the fate of Yggdrasil during the events of #Ragnarök. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jfZE3FpqS/?igshid=1emd9gbcz8ccv
