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n. - (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together.

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  • Again, this is an extract from the full and complete study of Whitman published by that finished Oxonian scholar and critic, the late John Addington Symonds: He is an immense...
  • The brain is itself a nut from the tree Ygdrasil; it carries the world, and in the first glances we anticipate all knowledge.
  • The eagle sailing through the air, recalled to her that deathless bird which sits on the boughs of Ygdrasil, the tree of the world.
  • Through its very centre, and as though supporting it, pierces the gnarled trunk of a walnut tree, reminding one of Ygdrasil, the Upholder of the Universe.
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