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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That was how it got the name Yggdrasil, the Horse of the Terrible One.
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It became popularly known as Yggdrasil, after the world tree of ancient Norse mythology.
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It became popularly known as Yggdrasil, after the world tree of ancient Norse mythology.
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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.
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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.
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But where the Norse axis was a sacred ash tree called Yggdrasil, Dorchen's is a poker table.
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