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 tree, a kind of Ygdrasil, stretching its roots deep down into the bowels of the world, and unfolding its magic boughs through all the spaces of the heavens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Gray Poet] Reference

The brain is itself a nut from the tree Ygdrasil; it carries the world, and in the first glances we anticipate all knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference

The eagle sailing through the air, recalled to her that deathless bird which sits on the boughs of Ygdrasil, the tree of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

Or it is seen as the Great Chain of Being, the Platonic-Christian analogue of the world-tree Ygdrasil, which links time and space and all that they contain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli] Reference

Her writing has been accepted by Martian Wave, Flutter, Static Movement, Interpoetry, Ygdrasil, Worlds Within, Blood Moon Rising, Sinister Tales, etc. and some of the publications featuring her art are Mary, Retort and Flashquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

The fountain from which the norns sprinkled the tree Ygdrasil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference

Ygdrasil, a wonderful ash-tree, one root of which extended into Midgard, one into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

The dragon which lives in the fountain Hvergelmar and gnaws the root of Ygdrasil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference

May our nests be built on the strongest and leafiest bough of the great tree Ygdrasil!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference

The wonderful ash-tree, Ygdrasil, made a far-spreading shade against the fierce heat of the sun in summer, and a stronghold against the piercing winds of winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

Ygdrasil, and there every evening came Brage, and sang so sweetly that the birds stopped to listen, and even the Norns, those implacable sisters at the foot of the tree, were softened by the melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

When the world was still young, and there were still many things which even the gods had to learn, Odin was so anxious to become wise that he went to a deep well whose waters touched the roots of Ygdrasil itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

Perhaps the formation of the first pair out of trees had a deep connection with the tree of life, Ygdrasil, which extended, according to Norse mythology throughout the universe, furnishing bodies for mankind from its branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Bible] Reference

Greek Fates sitting under the Norse tree Ygdrasil, deciding the destinies of mortals, and calling themselves Nornas; she spent her days in pilgrimages to mouldering shrines, and midnight often found her groping in the classic dust of extinct systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo. A Novel.] Reference

The same is true of others of the gods; in the old Norse mythology Ygdrasil was the great branching World-Ash, abode of the soul of the universe; the Peepul or Bo-tree in India is very sacred and must on no account be cut down, seeing that gods and spirits dwell among its branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning] Reference

Ratatosk at the roots of the Ash of Ygdrasil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gryll Grange] Reference

Then, looking down into the deep gray eyes that yearned upward passionately into his own, "I, the wanderer among mountains, pray: May we build our nests upon the strongest bough of the great tree Ygdrasil, and may love line them soft and warm, and may the storms be kind to them!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference

Ygdrasil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actions and Reactions] Reference

Ygdrasil!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger-lilies] Reference