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English
Proper noun
Yggdrasill
- Alternative spelling of Yggdrasil
Old Norse
Etymology
Yggr (“the terrifying one; Odin”) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” is a poetic expression for gallows, referring to the story of Odin hanging himself on the tree for nine nights.
Proper noun
Yggdrasill m
- an unclear word, only occurring in the genitive in a fixed expression
Usage notes
- Unlike in most languages that have borrowed this word, in Old Norse the “world tree” itself is only referred to by the expression askr Yggdrasils (“the ash tree of Yggdrasill”).
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References
- Winterbourne, Anthony (2004): When the Norns Have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism