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Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil is described as the largest and most stately tree ever to have grown. Its branches overhung the nine worlds and spread out above the heavens. It was supported by three great roots: one descended to JOTUNHEIM, the land of the giants, where MIMIR’s well stood; the second ended in foggy Niflheim, close by the spring of Hvergelmir, where the dragon NIDHOGG gnawed the root from below whenever it tired of chewing corpses; the last root was embeded near ASGARD, the stronghold of the gods, beneath URD’s well, where the gods held their daily assembly. Water was taken from the well each day by the NORNS, the three fates, Urd, Skuld, and Verdandi, and mixed with earth as a means of preventing Yggdrasil’s bark from rotting. And eagle perched on the very top of the cosmic tree was daily harassed bu a squirrel named Ratatosk, who brought unpleasant comments and insults up from the dragon Nidhogg. Another bird in its branches was a cock, sometimes referred to as “Vidofnir the tree snake”. -The Myths of the Nordic Lands
The picture wasn’t really based too much around Yggdrasil, but I just wanted to attach my own picture on here. :) It’s pen on paper. I was thinking about getting it tattooed on my back, but now I’m thinking of re-drawing it -more off of Yggdrasil background. Norse mythology is so interesting. I’ve been reading an encyclopedia of mythology. It’s where I got the paragraph above from. Pretty neat book, I found it in my room somewhere. :P

Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is described as the largest and most stately tree ever to have grown. Its branches overhung the nine worlds and spread out above the heavens. It was supported by three great roots: one descended to JOTUNHEIM, the land of the giants, where MIMIR’s well stood; the second ended in foggy Niflheim, close by the spring of Hvergelmir, where the dragon NIDHOGG gnawed the root from below whenever it tired of chewing corpses; the last root was embeded near ASGARD, the stronghold of the gods, beneath URD’s well, where the gods held their daily assembly. Water was taken from the well each day by the NORNS, the three fates, Urd, Skuld, and Verdandi, and mixed with earth as a means of preventing Yggdrasil’s bark from rotting. And eagle perched on the very top of the cosmic tree was daily harassed bu a squirrel named Ratatosk, who brought unpleasant comments and insults up from the dragon Nidhogg. Another bird in its branches was a cock, sometimes referred to as “Vidofnir the tree snake”. -The Myths of the Nordic Lands

The picture wasn’t really based too much around Yggdrasil, but I just wanted to attach my own picture on here. :) It’s pen on paper. I was thinking about getting it tattooed on my back, but now I’m thinking of re-drawing it -more off of Yggdrasil background. Norse mythology is so interesting. I’ve been reading an encyclopedia of mythology. It’s where I got the paragraph above from. Pretty neat book, I found it in my room somewhere. :P