Yggdrasil

thumb|The Yggdrasil The Yggdrasil is a large mythical tree that plays a central role in Norse cosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds. Quotes "Where did you get this Christmas tree?""Nowhere.""Did you cut down the Yggdrasil?""Maybe..." Randall Munroe in xkcd 521 An ash I know there stands,Yggdrasill is its name,a tall tree, showeredwith shining loam.From there come the dewsthat drop in the valleys.It stands forever green overUrðr's well. Völuspá, Poetic Edda, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198111819. Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it? J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance. ISBN 9781491291009. I know that I hungon the windy treeNine full nights,Pierced by a spearoffered to OdinMyself to myselfof which none knowsUpon that treeWhere its roots run... John Michael Greer, The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca. ISBN 9781454925774. External links yggdrasil Q131135 Yggdrasil Category:Norse mythology Category:Trees Category:Cosmology