Yggdrasil and Norse Cosmology

Yggdrasil according to Snorri Sturluson

• Yggdrasil is the biggest and best of all trees
• The tree's limbs spread over the whole world, standing over heaven
• Old Norse writers are inconsistent about the nine worlds versus one world distinction when describing Yggdrasil
• Three roots of the tree hold it up
• One root is among the gods
• Another is with the giants, specifically frost giants (Yelton arm cream thoughts)
• The third stands over knieval hammer/dark home, synonymous with hell
• Under the third root is where Gilmer/Gale Muir, the poison well from niflheimr, is: the liquid that contributed to making the first living beings in the North creation story
• Neath Hawker (Níðhöggr) gnaws that root from beneath
• Under the root toward the yotan are is me miss Brunner, the well of me Muir where wisdom is hidden
• Mimir owns the well
• The well has wisdom because Mimir drinks from it through the horn Gjallarhorn
• Gjallarhorn is also the horn that Haim dollar will blow to signal Ragnarok
• Odin asked for one drink from the well and laid down his eye as the price
• The third root of the ash tree stands in heaven
• Under that root is the well which is very holy, called or with our Bruner/well of Werther
• The gods have their judgment place there and hold their court every day
• The gods ride up there over before awesome
• Bivrost is also called the God bridge
• What you see is red in the rainbow is burning fire
• Frost giants and hill giants would be able to walk up into the sky if everything could walk
• Many places are beautiful in heaven and everything there is under divine protection
• A beautiful house stands under the ash tree next to the well
• Out of that house come three young women who are named for their birth, the three Norns
• These young women shape the lifespan for men
• An eagle sits in the limbs of the ash tree and is very wise
• Between his eyes sits a hawk named feather fall near / weather for summer
• A squirrel named ratatoskr runs up and down along the ash tree and brings salting/insulting words between the Eagle and Neath hooker
• For deer run in the limbs, biting its foliage (pine needles)
• Serpents are in we're Gail near the well with Neath auger and hell that no tongue may count
• The nornes that live next to the well of order take water in the well and with it the moist earth or clay that lies around the well
• They sprinkle it up over the ash tree so that the limbs of the tree won't shrivel or rock
• Everything that comes into the well becomes as white as the membrane called the outer shell membrane which lies inside the eggshell
• The Norse use white to mean not just a color but also brightness - they're saying you get really bright and shiny when you come into this well + glowing is associated with beauty
• The dew which comes off of the tree falls on to the earth and men call that honeydew and from that bees are born
• Birds are born in the well, called spawns and from them the kind of bird which is called that has come
• Realms that are discussed are presented as realms, not planets
• Mouth guard there is explicitly surrounded by an outer ocean beyond which is jolts and Hame are the realms where the Hilton are/giants live