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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
great tree of the universe, 1770, from Old Norse ygdrasill, apparently from Yggr, a name of Odin + drasill "horse."
Wikipedia
Yggdrasil ( or ; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced ) is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.
Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their things. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the wyrm (dragon) Níðhöggr, an unnamed eagle, and the stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór.
Conflicting scholarly theories have been proposed about the etymology of the name Yggdrasill, the possibility that the tree is of another species than ash, the relation to tree lore and to Eurasian shamanic lore, the possible relation to the trees Mímameiðr and Læraðr, Hoddmímis holt, the sacred tree at Uppsala, and the fate of Yggdrasil during the events of Ragnarök.
Yggdrasil is the world tree of Norse mythology.
Yggdrasil may also refer to:
- Yggdrasil (album), an album by the Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken
- Yggdrasil (band), a folk band from the Faroe Islands
- Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, an early Linux (computer operating system) distribution
- Yggdrasil (board game), a co-operative board game
- Yggdrasil (Digimon), the overseer of the Digital World in several series of the Digimon franchise
- Mithos Yggdrasill, a character in the video game Tales of Symphonia
- Yggdrasil, name of the computer that orders the attack on Gloire in the video game Silpheed
- Yggdrasil, authentication service created by Mojang used in games Minecraft and Scrolls (video game)
- Yggdrasil, an ÄRM from the Nobuyuki Anzai manga MÄR
- Yggdrasil Drive, a fictional energy source which powers robots in the Code Geass anime series
- Yggdrasil, an enormous and complex computer system used to run reality in Oh My Goddess!
- Yggdrasil, a sand cruiser in the video game Xenogears, later modified into the Yggdrasil II and Yggdrasil III
- Yggdrasil, the Overlord hero unit in the video game StarCraft
- Yggdrasil, a spaceship in the Hyperion Cantos novel series by Dan Simmons
- Yggdrasil Labyrinth, the setting of the Etrian Odyssey series of video games
- Project Yggdrasil, a fictional project in the Shuffle! franchise
- Yggdrasil, the name of the game that the anime Overlord is set in
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- Ygdrassil (musical group), a Dutch harmony singing folk duo
Yggdrasil is a Nordic music ensemble based in the Faroe Islands. The band was formed in 1981 by the composer and pianist Kristian Blak, who has written most of the material for the group. From the very beginning, Yggdrasil has included musicians from other countries, having varied musical backgrounds, mainly in jazz, but also in ethnic, folk, rock and classical music.
Most works have been created in relation with other forms of art : visual art, poetry, ballet, opera - or in some cases, with nature (concertos in sea caves). The compositions draw ideas and themes from ethnic material from the North Atlantic region, such as Faroese ballads, hymns and rhymes, Inuit songs or Shetland folk music. Improvisation takes a large part in the interpretation and ranges from free and ethno-jazz to classical and world music.
The band is named after the world tree Yggdrasil in Norse mythology.
is the fourth studio album by Bump of Chicken, released on August 25, 2004. It included the singles " Snow Smile", " Lost Man/Sailing Day", " Only Lonely Glory", and " Sharin no Uta". The album peaked at #1 on Oricon Weekly Charts and was #19 on the 2004 Oricon Top 100 Albums.
Yggdrasil is a fictional location in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Usage examples of "yggdrasil".
I regard the huge old tree and listen for its echoes down the ages: Yggdrasil, the Golden Bough, the Yule tree, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Bo beneath which Lord Gautama found his soul and lost it.
The aged ash tree Yggdrasil was shaken from its roots to its topmost branches.
In the nearby volume of space, collimated beams of accelerated matter were traveling in the same relativistic frame as Yggdrasil and shedding some of their radiation in the visible part of the spectrum.
There was nothing to see out there anymore except Yggdrasil itself—mile after mile of great twisting subbranches and carpets of leaves, lit up by the banks of spotlights that were trained on them from the shaft of the probe: not only to give Yggdrasil a sense of its own rotation, but to provide the human passengers with a sense of place in a universe that otherwise had gone blank.