Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The great ash tree that holds together earth, heaven, and hell by its roots and branches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scand. myth., the ash-tree which binds together heaven, earth, and hell.
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- proper noun The World Tree in
Norse mythology . The greatash tree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together
Etymologies
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Examples
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For the same reason, the Scandinavian cultures of northern Europe depicted the Universe as a great tree, which they called Yggdrasil, or “World Tree,” another teaching tool for the web of life.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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For the same reason, the Scandinavian cultures of northern Europe depicted the Universe as a great tree, which they called Yggdrasil, or “World Tree,” another teaching tool for the web of life.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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For the same reason, the Scandinavian cultures of northern Europe depicted the Universe as a great tree, which they called Yggdrasil, or “World Tree,” another teaching tool for the web of life.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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That was how it got the name Yggdrasil, the Horse of the Terrible One.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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It became popularly known as Yggdrasil, after the world tree of ancient Norse mythology.
Family Tree Matthew Sanborn Smith 2007
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It became popularly known as Yggdrasil, after the world tree of ancient Norse mythology.
Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2007
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_Lead by renegade nun CRYSTAL SPIRIT, the Facers plan to launch their own expedition to a habitable extra solar planet called Yggdrasil, which circles Eta Cassiopeia, some twenty light years from our Sun.
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_The World-Ash_, generally called Yggdrasil's Ash, is one of the most interesting survivals of tree-worship.
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday
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Along the Hume Hwy. east of Eden, a concrete Mountain Ash dubbed Yggdrasil boasts a wide-screen computer enhanced vista: an arrow-straight monorail running from Uluru clean through the Olgas.
Unmanned Stephen Oliver
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But where the Norse axis was a sacred ash tree called Yggdrasil, Dorchen's is a poker table.
Chicago Reader 2009
tankhughes commented on the word Yggdrasil
Well now I'm confused. On Etymonline, it said the Ygg part was Odin, and drasil was horse. Here it says it's terrible + hanging tree. Oof. What's going on here?
December 3, 2020
ry commented on the word Yggdrasil
There seem to be alternative interpretations. I think the Wiktionary one cited on this page is not in fact commonly accepted. Wikipedia agrees with Etymonline.
Important note: Etymonline is entirely the project of a single very prolific old guy.
December 4, 2020