Ygdrasil

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.

The Good Gray Poet 1895

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Archive 2008-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2008

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.

Pegasus and the Princess Megan Arkenberg 2008

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.

A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli Berlin, Isaiah 1971

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.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

The brain is itself a nut from the tree Ygdrasil; it carries the world, and in the first glances we anticipate all knowledge.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

The eagle sailing through the air, recalled to her that deathless bird which sits on the boughs of Ygdrasil, the tree of the world.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

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.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

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.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

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.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906