world-ash

noun

Yggdrasil.

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Meanings

noun

alternative world ash

  1. GermanicNorsehuman sciencesYggdrasil.

    This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree.

    1988, David A. White, The turning wheel: a study of contracts and oaths in Wagner's ring, page 108
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    Ash is a strongly runic tree by implication, the world-ash Yggdrasil being the tree from which Odin hung in order to obatin the runes.

    1993, Bernard King, The elements of the Runes, Thorsons Element, →ISBN, page 95
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