Yggdrasil

The Yggdrasil is a large mythical tree that plays a central role in Norse cosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds.

Quotes

 * "Where did you get this Christmas tree?" "Nowhere." "Did you cut down the Yggdrasil?" "Maybe..."
 * Randall Munroe in xkcd 521


 * An ash I know there stands, Yggdrasill is its name, a tall tree, showered with shining loam. From there come the dews that drop in the valleys. It stands forever green over Urðr's well.
 * Völuspá, Poetic Edda, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198111819.


 * Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?
 * J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance. ISBN 9781491291009.


 * I know that I hung on the windy tree Nine full nights, Pierced by a spear offered to Odin Myself to myself of which none knows Upon that tree Where its roots run...
 * John Michael Greer, The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca. ISBN 9781454925774.