The Yggdrassil is a sacred tree where the Old Norse gods held court, and found in many Viking poems. It links the nine realms of the world together and is under attack everyday from rot, from stags, from serpents. But what if I told you it's name isn't what we think it is?
This is a talk discussing the possibility that the Yggdrasil/Yggdrassils, often thought to mean gallows of Odin's Horse, isn't the name of the tree. And discusses what the tree probably was called earlier on in the days of our ancestors.
References
Crawford, Jackson, 2019. The Wanderer’s Hávamál. Hackett Publishing
Liberman, Anatoly. 2016. Prayer and Laughter, Essays on Medieval Scandanavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture. Paleograph Press.
Magnússon, Eiríkr. 1895. Óðinn’s Horse Yggdrasill. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Schjødt, Jens P. 2008. Initiation between Two Worlds: Structure and Symbolism in Pre-Scandinavian Christian Religion. Translated by Victor Hansen. The Viking Collection. Studies in Northern Civilization 17. The University Press of Southern Denmark
Sundqvist, Olaf. 2009. The Hanging, the Nine Nights and the “Precious Knowledge” in Hávamál 138-145: The Cultic Context. Analecta Septentrionalia. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 649-668
Faulkes, Anthony. 2008. The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlusson. Everyman
Grønvik, Ottar. (1999) Hávamál: Studier over verkets formelle oppbygning og dets religiøse innhold
Hunke, Waltraud. 1952. Odins Geburt. Festschrift Genzmer.
Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
1:59 The World Tree's name
3:37 The problem with the name Yggdrasil
4:13 Drassil - It's complicated
6:16 The gallows
7:48 Sleipnir and the Ash Tree
8:30 Ash Tree is a representation of man
9:13 A kenning for Odin
11:08 Loki's old name
11:54 Why did the name change?
12:36 And so its original name and meaning can be found
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