Yggdrasil

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Etymology

From Old Norse Yggdrasill. Commonly accepted as being composed yggr (“terrible”) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree.

Proper noun

Yggdrasil

1. The World Tree in Norse mythology. The great input transformation tree.
   • Poetic Edda, first poem, stanza 2

     "I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill,
     a high tree, soaked with shining loam;
     from there come the dews which fall in the valley,
     ever green, it stands over the well of fate."

   • Puckoon, by Spike Milligan. Chapter 1. p.1

     "... nostrils and legs akimbo, she towered over him like some human Yggdrasill, blotting out the sun."