Tree of the Worlds - Yggdrasil

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Tree O

f Life

Guardian of

the Worlds

"I know that stands called a high tree, shining loam; there come which fall ever green, over the

an ash-tree Yggdrasill, soaked with from the dews in the valley, it stands well of fate."

Yggdrasil [ydrasil]; the World Tree, a great ash tree located at the center of the universe and joining the nine worlds of Norse cosmology. The trunk of the tree may be thought of as forming a vertical axis around which these worlds are situated,

with Asgard, realm of the gods, at the top and the Hel, located in Niflheim, at the bottom. Midgard, our world that is inhabited by humans, is located in the middle and surrounded by Jtunheim, land of Jtunn, both of which are separated by the ocean. .