Yggdrasil

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, showered
  with shining loam.
  From there come the dews
  that drop in the valleys.
  It stands forever green over
  Urðr'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 hung
  on the windy tree
  Nine full nights,
  Pierced by a spear
  offered to Odin
  Myself to myself
  of which none knows
  Upon that tree
  Where its roots run...
  • John Michael Greer, The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca. ISBN 9781454925774.